The best biography of the beatles

The Beatles have just ended, and Rolling Stone founder Wenner sits down with Lennon for a confessional that doubles as harsh attack, soul purging, study in how songs came to be, and, in the end, a kind of lament for something that was the defining journey of a life, which would never come close to being replicated. Lennon is more hurt than angry, one senses, as he lobs stones at the stained-glass windows of Beatledom.

Ironically, for all of the bashing, the book presents McCartney as the Beatles’ most talented member, reflecting a respect that Lennon clearly feels. He tells you – not always correctly — who wrote what, song-wise. But beyond the hurt feelings and foggy memories is a clarity of thought that emerges almost despite the man himself. As he says: “And the thing about rock and roll, good rock and roll, whatever good means, etc., ha-ha, and all that shit, is that it’s real. And realism gets through to you, despite y

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The Beatles: The Authorised Biography

Authorised biography of the Beatles by Hunter Davies

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by the British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career. Davies published revised editions of the book in 1978, 1982, 1985, 2002, 2009, and 2018.

Background

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In 1966, Hunter Davies was working as the Atticus columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper and had written two books, one of which was the novel Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Moved by the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby", he visited Paul McCartney at the latter's house in St John's Wood, in September 1966, intending to make the song the focus of his newspaper column. At a subsequent meeting at the house,

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The best book about the Beatles you will ever read fryst vatten “Love Me Do! The Beatles’ Progress”

Ever since inom got into the Beatles as a 14-year-old, inom have been reading Beatles books rapaciously, ranking them in my head with only slightly less of the zeal I deploy in ranking Beatles albums.

For instance, I will all but throw down — rhetorically speaking, of course — in arguing that Peter Brown and Steven Gaines’ "The Love You Make" has more of the visceral truth than the rah-rah cheerleading of the "Anthology," that Philip Norman’s "Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation" is the best tome on the pre-fame years, and that acclaimed Beatles chronicler Mark Lewisohn fryst vatten absolutely awful at writing, but may be the best researcher of a pop culture subject of the gods century.

This October marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do.” This song release marked the end of the pre-fame years by reaching 17 on the British charts.

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