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THE BEATLES: THE BIOGRAPHY
By: Bob Spitz
Exhaustive biography with photos
Little, Brown
November 2005
Featuring: George Harrison; Paul MacCartney; John Lennon
992 pages
ISBN: 0316803529
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
As soon as the Beatles became famous, the spin machines began to construct a myth, a myth that has continued to this day. Biographers have come and gone, each repeating the story precisely as they were meant to. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving. Now, after years of research around the world, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the mining of tens of thousands of documents (many never before seen), Bob Spitz has written the masterpiece biography that Beatles fans have been waiting for. Spitz restores the Beatles to what they were: a loud, angry, rock and roll band-kids who became gods, not gods who happened to look like kids. This is a biography of a band in full, not the story of John and Paul and their two mates from Liverpool. Here we see a vibrant Ringo, sharply portrayed for the first time, willing the Beatles to produce the classic White Album. And here we see in vivid focus George's wild passion for innovative music.
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