About the Author

Brooke Halpin is a classically trained musician, award-winning composer, published author, and painter. He had the great fortune of meeting John Lennon and Yoko Ono at John’s thirty-first birthday party and on separate occasions met Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. He produces and hosts the weekly syndicated radio show Come Together with the Beatles, which airs on www.kbu.fm and www.wrockradio.com. Brooke has written The Everything Piano and Keyboards Book, the quiz book Do You Really Know The Beatles?, and A Magical Mystery Time, a novel based on a true story. As a composer, Brooke wrote the music to the Academy Award–winning film Molly’s Pilgrim, the PBS special More Than Broken Glass: Memories of Kristallnacht, and Rudolf Nureyev’s ballet Cristoforo for the Hungarian National Ballet Company. A recipient of a MacDowell Arts Colony fellowship, Brooke is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and the Hartford Conservatory of Music.