Braun's account can lay claim to be the first and truest account of Beatlemania. Almost from the off, the British press were fiercely protective of the Beatles' image, but Braun, as an American, has no patriotic qualms about repeating verbatim the lads' often salty language. Many of the quips and anecdotes that found their way into subsequent endless retellings of the Beatles story had their origins here.