Author Event! Bruce Spizer - The Beatles A Hard Day's Night & More

Bruce Spizer, a local attorney and an internationally recognized expert on The Beatles, will discuss his latest book, The Beatles A Hard Day's Night & More, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 29, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

These presentations are free of charge and open to the public. There is no registration.

The book covers the Beatles first film and the related soundtrack albums from the British, American and Canadian perspectives. It also covers the records released from the Beatles 1961 Hamburg recordings, as well as the other singles and albums released from February through October of 1964.

The book also contains chapters on the EMI recording sessions for the singles and albums, and the album covers.

And, like the other books in the Beatles Album Series, the book contains chapters on the news, music and films of the era to place the Beatles debut film and its related records in their proper context.

Bruce Spizer is a native New Orleanian, where he attended Isidore Newman School. He received an undergraduate degree, master’s degree in business administration, and law degree from Tulane University. As a young lawyer, he managed a local new wave band called The Cold.

In 1997, Spizer earned a large legal fee from the settlement of a class action lawsuit, and decided to use some of the money to replace his childhood collection of Beatles records that had been damaged by cockroaches. Drawn into the world of Beatlemania, he began to research and write books.

Spizer has served as a consultant to EMI and Apple Records for their CD re-releases of the American configurations of the Beatles catalog. He was also chosen to write 2,592 questions for a special Beatles edition of the Trivial Pursuit board game.

Spizer served as an official consultant to Capitol Records on The Capitol Albums Volumes 1 and 2 and wrote the essay contained in the 56-page booklet included with The Capitol Albums Volume 2. Spizer’s articles on the Beatles are featured regularly in magazines such as Beatlefan and Goldmine.