Tune In: The Beatles - All These Years, Vol. 1 by Mark Lewisohn

from captnkurt

Incredibly comprehensive and detailed history of the early days of The Beatles up to the end of 1962, the dawn of Beatlemania, Looking forward to volume 2.

from khamneithang

"Every once in a while, life conjures up a genuine ultimate," so begins Mark Lewisohn's epic book on the Beatles. This is not only true of the Fab Four but also of Mark Lewisohn's work itself. In a new tome on the Beatles titled Tune In, which is the first of a three-volume project that the auth...

from LissaJ

This is possibly one of the most enjoyable non-fiction books that I have ever read and I am trying to decide if it would only be so to huge Beatles fans, such as myself. I don't think so. Lewisohn has written a huge and highly detailed account of the Beatles rise to fame from their ancestors to t...

from JonArnold

Context is everything. By the time I was born, four years after the Beatles had split, they were already on their way to becoming a pop cultural monolith. They were an integral part of my parents' record collection, an indelible part of the culture I was born into. Like all the children of Beatle...

from Welsh_eileen2

A great account of my favourite group of all time. This is a timeline covering 1959 to 1962. From the very early days when John and Paul got together playing in their first band, up to when they arrived at Abbey Road to make their first record. This is part one of probably the best account of the...