9780140253016. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 179. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 179 p. Rock journalist Jim O Donnell spent eight years reading researching traveling repeatedly to Liverpool and conducting many interviews with local people to thoroughly reconstruct--minute-by-minute--the events of the day in 1957 on which John Lennon and Paul McCartney met and began one of the most important collaborations in the history of modern music.