Product Description

This is the most comprehensive and oral history of The Beatles ever published. An 'as it happened' story of the greatest pop group of them all, it features a wealth of quotes from the Sixties by John, Paul, George and Ringo themselves and a host of others who were close to the group during the heady days of Beatlemania and beyond, including their families, fellow musicians, Brian Epstein, George Martin and dozens more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #664975 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Review
'It might actually make you dislike Paul and John at points. It will certainly open your eyes. This is truly one Beatles book you need.' Record Collector

About the Author
Keith Badman is widely regarded among aficionados as a world authority on film footage of The Beatles and pop in general. He is the author The Beatles After the Break-Up 1970-2000, the highly acclaimed chronology of The Beatles' solo years and it was awarded Record Collector's Rock Book of the Year.

Customer Reviews

Two-fold decision
I could imagine that there are two audiencies for this book. Firstly there are the hardcore Beatle fans who don't find anything new in the book, but who will buy it anyway, because it's nice. Secondly there are those who don't own a single interview book on Beatles. They will find this compilation suitable for their interest, and they will enjoy reading it, because it's nice and loaded with interesting quotes on this and that.

It Don't Come Easy
Unlike Mr. Badman's previous 2 Beatle books (After The Break Up & Off The Record), this is not essential reading. There seems to be a lot of filler, and there are no surprises or revelations to be found here. It does contain some great pictures, and it is nice to have as an up-to-date (mid 2001) chronicle of the Fabs' solo endeavors.

Typos galore!!
The book is an interesting read with a handful of startling and unexpected insights peppered through its pages. Not quite the scandalous alternative view that it makes out, but there are some juicy titbits that you may not have come across before - the fact that John disliked Yoko reading Japanese books and magazines because he felt it was part of her mind that didn't belong to him; the fact that a junior George used to follow John and Cynthia everywhere, even on dates; the fact that Mal Evans co-wrote a number of songs on Sgt. Pepper.

HOWEVER - and this is a big however - I found the huge amount of typos and mistakes very distracting. The book was originally published in 2000, I bought the 2007 version, and no one had been through and cleaned it up in the meantime. Lot's of example's of apostrophe's being used in plural's - a cardinal sin. Wrong words dotted about, rendering whole passages baffling, a product of lazy transcribing. Spelling mistakes. You name it.

So, definitely a book worth reading, but if you're annoyed by professional writers using sloppy English, this isn't the one for you.