Geoffrey Giuliano  Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11, 1953) is an American author, radio personality, and film actor, best known for his biographies of the Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, and of musician Pete Townshend. He is also known for his involvement in the McLibel case. Giuliano was born in Rochester, New York and raised in the villages of Albion and Olcott Beach, New York. He was the youngest of five children. His father, Joseph Robert Juliana, was a heating contractor. He and his mother, Myrna Oneita Juliana, moved to Tampa, Florida when he was 12. There, he first became interested in acting, Vedic philosophy and fine art seriography. He was born "Jeffrey Joseph Juliana", but later adopted "Geoffrey Giuliano" as a pen name. In 1997, he changed his legal name to "Jagannatha Dasa". For a brief period, the honorific title of "Puripada" was awarded him by several Indian yoga students, but Giuliano ultimately rejected the title as inappropriate. Giuliano attended Madison Junior High School, H.B. Plant High School and Hillsborough Community College (all in Tampa). In the mid-1970s, he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport and began working as an actor. Giuliano has written extensively on popular music, particularly the Beatles. By 1999, he had authored 20 books, including "Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison" (1990) and "Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney" (1991). "Rolling Stone" magazine described "Dark Horse" as "evenhanded and soundly researched", while Barry Miller of "Library Journal" said it was "a revelatory biography of the elusive Harrison and his constellation of secular and spiritual interests, passions, pursuits, friends, and loves ... Harrison's own autobiographical "I, Me, Mine" is unsurpassed for the song-by-song explication, but "Dark Horse" should be its on-shelf companion." In an interview for "The Guardian" in September 1992, Giuliano offended George Harrison's wife Olivia by referring to the Beatles as "real shits in real life" and dismissing Paul McCartney as "just shallow and vacuous". On October 5 that year, "The Guardian" published a letter from Olivia Harrison in which she wrote that "like a starving dog he [Giuliano] scavenges his heroes, picking up bits of gristle and sinew along the way."