Books, Arts & Manners: The Party’s Over

The Neophiliacs By Christopher Booker Gambit, 414 pp., $8.95

In 1963 Harold Wilson and the Beatles arrived simultaneously in the forefront of the British scene. Mr. Wilson later acknowledged his debt to the mood of the times by including the Beatles in the Honors List—making them Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, no less. Today Mr. Wilson is back on the Opposition benches, and the Beatles appear to have broken up. An era has ended.

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The Neophiliacs By Christopher Booker Gambit, 414 pp., $8.95

In 1963 Harold Wilson and the Beatles arrived simultaneously in the forefront of the British scene. Mr. Wilson later acknowledged his debt to the mood of the times by including the Beatles in the Honors List—making them Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, no less. Today Mr. Wilson is back on the Opposition benches, and the Beatles appear to have broken up. An era has ended.