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5 unusual facts about Steven Gaines


Steven Gaines

Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach.

In the early part of his career he wrote several books about the music business, including Alice Cooper's autobiography, "Me, Alice"; "The Love You Make," a biography of the Beatles; and "Heroes and Villains," a biography of the Beach Boys, before briefly switching his focus to fashion designers with biographies on Halston and Calvin Klein.

He graduated near the bottom of his class at Erasmus Hall, and flunked out of Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gaines was working in a small auction gallery in 1971 when he met former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner at Max's Kansas City, a New York restaurant and club.

The Love You Make

The Love You Make (subtitled "An Insider's story of the Beatles") is a 1983 book by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines.



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