 | Revolution in the Head: The "Beatles" Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.00 The most lucid and insightful commentary on the Beatles' music. Passionately enthusiastic about the good stuff, ruthlessly cutting about the bad, somber about pop's decline
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 | The Complete "Beatles" Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £15.50 Or 'What the Beatles did' - a mind-boggling day-to-day chronicle of the band's career
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 | The "Beatles": The Classic by Hunter Davies
Buy new: £6.52 / Used from: £4.79 The first biography, with a trove of first-hand observation and anecdote
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 | The Beatles Anthology by Beatles
Buy new: £21.58 / Used from: £20.09 They tell their own story. Sometimes an exercise in nostalgia but more often than not fascinating
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 | Can't Buy Me Love: The "Beatles", Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £19.80 Finally, a proper critical biography of the band. Impeccably researched, and perhaps the wisest and most sensible book ever written about them
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| Love Me Do!: "Beatles" Progress by Michael Braun
Buy used from: £0.73 The first book written about them, from 1964 - sharp, good-humoured, amused and fabulously indiscreet
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 | The Beatles Complete Score (Beatles) by Tim Cain
Buy new: £43.37 / Used from: £61.64 The canon in book form. Every recording lovingly transcribed
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| "Playboy" Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff
Buy used from: £5.21 Lennon's mellowest and most considered self-assessment, recorded only days before his death
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 | The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-by-hour Account of How the "Beatles" Began by Jim O'Donnell
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £4.50 A detailed account of what was going on in the world, and in Liverpool, on the day Lennon first met McCartney. Mad but engrossing
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 | Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Paul McCartney
Buy used from: £1.90 An eye-opener - Paul on his life as a Fab. A slight hint of 'I was cool too, y'know' but who can blame him - he's Paul McCartney
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 | I, Me, Mine: New Introduction by Olivia Harrison by George Harrison
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.75 George tells his story, or bits of it. Funny and sometimes caustic
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