Fifth Beatle. Graphic novel. Tivari V.

“The Beatles” is a group that has split the world culture into “before” and “after”, and the names of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison have long gone down in history. But one name remained in the shadow of the incredible success of the Liverpool Four: the name of the person, thanks to which the Beatles received their first contract with a sound label, fell on TV screens, broke into the tops of the hit parades and began to tour around the world. Brian Epstain, who had no experience in the musical business, at the concert of novice musicians in the small basement of Liverpool was completely accidental. But it was precisely with this signs of chance that the story of the legendary success of “The Beatles.”

Brian, who kept his hand on the pulse of the group, began, which faded much earlier than its glory-at 32 years old, almost immediately after the cessation of tours. In 1967. Three years later, in an interview with Rolling Stone, John Lennon called this moment the “beginning of the end.” It took place only in 2014, half a century after his death.

about how the group offended the thresholds of the recording companies and put up with failures, looked for musical and external styles, changed the composition and walked in the way to the glory under sensitive leadership Brian Epstine - in the graphic novel "Fifth Beatle".