Roll Up!

Roll Up!: The Magical Mystery Tour Diary of Norman KelsallIn the bittersweet autumn of 1967, the Beatles were at the absolute top of the world—and entirely lost. Their legendary manager Brian Epstein had just died suddenly, leaving the four most famous young men on the planet completely without a rudder. Paul McCartney's solution? Don't sit still. Build a movie out of a hand-drawn pie chart, pack a bus with eccentric actors, and head into the English countryside at a pace.Enter twenty-two-year-old Norrie Kelsall, an unemployed dreamer from Liverpool with a shilling notebook, a leaking fountain pen, and a stroke of pure family luck: his cousin is Mal Evans, the Beatles' towering, protective road manager. Drafted as the "e;Assistant to the Assistant to Nobody in Particular,"e; Norrie is thrown into a whirlwind of beautiful, homemade chaos.From a giant yellow coach wedged tight on a medieval Dartmoor bridge to a freezing aircraft hangar in Kent—where John Lennon plays a greasy waiter shovelling mountains of dream-spaghetti—Norrie watches a legendary disaster and triumph take shape from the very edge of the frame.Moving, funny, and deeply affectionate, Just Do Something Funny is a rare, intimate look at the human cost of legendary fame. It is a story of a grieving band trying to make the world feel a little bit warmer, a little bit dafter, and a little less sad—recorded by a lucky lad who held the clipboard, brought the tea, and remembered it exactly the way it was.