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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.

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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.

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

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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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