![]() ![]() Does far more than enrich with mind-boggling detail, there's a surprise on every page. This first volume suggests he is on the verge of achieving what was heretofore considered impossible: blowing the cobwebs off one of the late 20th century's hoariest cultural myths, scraping away decades' worth of accumulated crud and revealing detail no one previously suspected was there * Literary Review *Īn epic unprecedented in rock 'n' roll biography, and a great read. ![]() ![]() Mark Lewisohn raises the biographical bar to stratospheric heights. Lewisohn has set out to do the Beatles justice and write the definitive history. Not only an enthralling account of the Beatles' origins, far superior to anything that has gone before, but also an essential piece of social history. If only all important subjects had their Lewisohn * Washington Post *Ī triumph. Lewisohn's work stands as a monumental triumph, a challenge not merely to other Beatles biographers but to the discipline of biography itself. A radical event and a joy to read - Lewisohn tells the tale with such authoritative command of the evidence and so intimate a grasp of the Beatles' daily lives that the reader emerges knowing - with a certainty denied all previous generations - that this is how it really happened. ![]()
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