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by: Bob Spitz
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922
EAN: 9780743551410
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0743551419
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Number Of Items: 9
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Sales Rank: 696981
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio
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Product Description:
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -- until now.
The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitz's The Beatles is the biography fans have been waiting for.
Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and textured. We are there in the McCartney living room when Paul and John learn to write songs together; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the band can perform; and at the Ed Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness. From Shea to San Francisco, through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies, across the universe-all the way to a rooftop concert and one last moment of laughter and music.
It is all here, the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, the magic never again to be repeated. Bob Spitz's masterpiece is, at long last, the biography the Beatles deserve.
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Rating:  - THE BEATLES...SOMETHING NEW!
As a lifelong Beatle fan and book lover, I am always looking for the latest "good" Beatle book to put on my Amazon Wish List. I received this as a Christmas gift and it took me roughly 3 years to read it. Sounds absurd, but the author's writing style is somewhat artistic and poetic and extremely fact-filled and intelligent. If you like to read a book to help you fall asleep at night, this, perhaps is not the best one for that. I had it on my headboard and found it difficult getting through the ... Read More
Rating:  - This about that
I've read 'em all, and just bought Norman's latest Lennon tome. I have a bookshelf dedicated to the Fab. Am I an expert? Do I know every date, jot and tittle? No, and I don't care to, frankly. I'll leave that to the others so inclined. As for me, I just relish the pure joy of the Beatles, their legend AND their myths. For my money, Spitz does an exceptional job of conveying the same. That's good enough for me. Buy it. Read it. Enjoy.
Rating:  - Great starting point; not-so-great ending point
I have read maybe ten books about the Beatles, and Mr. Spitz's effort is a "tweener." It's better than some, not as good as others, and would make a great "if-you-could-only-read-one-Beatles-book" book. If, however, you are a true Beatles nut, I don't think you'll find much new here.
I have a few little points. One: the first third of the book moves with glacier-like speed through the founding and launch of the band. Some will love this near-obsessive detail, other will find it too ... Read More
Rating: - Must-Read for Beatles Fans
This is an excellent and engrossing all-around history of the Beatles. It starts with the life of John Lennon as an infant and moves along as Lennon meets up with various people who become his band mates. The band becomes the Beatles as Paul and George are added and Pete Best and other are shunted aside and as Ringo is added. The details of the lives and activities of the Beatles - the imperfect musicianship, the arguments, the drugs, the venereal disease picked up in Hamburg, the formative experiences ... Read More
Rating: - The Beatles Rock History
Bob Spitz's biography of the Beatles is perhaps the finest, best researched, and most tantalizing analysis of how and why this group intersected with history in such a powerful way. Details are lavishly arranged to give the reader a sense of the sheer talent and blinding ambition that made the Beatles a cultural and musical phenomenon. Spitz does not sugar coat the one-tracked vision that guided the group's rise to fame. The Beatles had a killer instinct for success that was evident from their earliest ... Read More
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