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He was the first child of Harry and Malka(most known as Queenie)Epstein. His full name was Brian Samuel. the second child of the family, Clive, was born in 1936. Their home still stands at 197 Queens Drive, Liverpool, Brian had a difficult childhood caused by his unique personality. He changed many schools and suffered a traumatic Army duty in 1952. By that period Brian began to understand his likes, his sexual orientation and mostly his appetite to live not in his parents schedule but by following his feelings. When he returned to Liverpool told his father that he was not going to follow his steps by managing the family bussiness store North End Music Stores(NEMS) |
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to manage them that same night. That night changed the Rock history for ever. Their way to stardom began rapidly. Brian changed their looks and scene behaviour for a start. After that he started making the right moves to make the group known to the public and to music companies in order to reach a good contract for them. He had a lot of beatings in his search but soon the Beatles were with a start contract in their hands and their real career started. Brians passion and belief about them helped him go through every difficulty he faced in his way to make them famous. Soon the whole London was talking about the four boys from Liverpool, and that was Brians biggest success in the whole story. He took four boys from the cellar and driven only by his passion and vision and without any bases drived them to world stardom. During the Beatlemania years Brian became very rich and famous to the world as their manager and pop figure. People attend to him as "the fifth Beatle", as he always dreamed to be. His life was elegant and moved from his first home "whaddon house", Belgravia to a three-floor own home at 24 Chapell street Belgravia. his private life was lonesome and secret. He suffered from loneliness, guilty thoughts (as being a gay in a society that that was forbidden). Drugs were a bad add to this situation and started his way down. The last Beatles concerts at 1966 were Brians last lights of living. After that he spent the last dramatic year of his life totally alone, taking drugs and making unsatisfactory one night relationships with people who mostly used him. In summer 1967 Brian saw his Beatles perform the first ever world live music appearance singing "all you need is love", in their top of their careers. Two months later, on August 27th 1967, he was found dead inside his bedroom in Chapell street in the age of 33. He was burried two days later in Liverpools Jewish cemetary, section A, grave H12, near his hather Harry who died six weeks earlier. His brother Clive died in 1987 and mother Queenie in 1996. Clives son Henry Epstein lives and continues the Epstein family. |
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