The Beatles - All These Years

The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so explosively?

Mark Lewisohn's three-part biography is the first true and accurate account of the Beatles, a contextual history built upon impeccable research and written with energy, style, objectivity and insight. This first volume covers the crucial and less-known early period - the Liverpool and Hamburg years of a hungry rock and roll band, when all the sharp characters and situations take shape.

This is the Beatles like you've never read them before. It isn't just 'another book', it's the book, from the world-acknowledged authority. Forget what you know and discover The Complete Story.

“This is the story told in Proustian detail . . . The first edited-down volume, is largely a delight, and the story is told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it. Secondary sources are comprehensively mined; letters, public records and business documents have been found in places no one else ever thought to look . . . Lewisohn is a Beatles oracle - GuardianNever previously have the Beatles' formative years been recounted in such detail. It is unlikely to be surpassed - Daily TelegraphLewisohn has done an astonishing job. I can't wait for volume two - IndependentA major event in music publishing this month as Tune In by Mark Lewisohn lands..the definitive account of The Beatles - GQ”

This is the story told in Proustian detail . . . The first edited-down volume, is largely a delight, and the story is told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it. Secondary sources are comprehensively mined; letters, public records and business documents have been found in places no one else ever thought to look . . . Lewisohn is a Beatles oracle - Guardian

Never previously have the Beatles' formative years been recounted in such detail. It is unlikely to be surpassed - Daily Telegraph

Lewisohn has done an astonishing job. I can't wait for volume two - Independent

A major event in music publishing this month as Tune In by Mark Lewisohn lands..the definitive account of The Beatles - GQ

Mark Lewisohn is universally acknowledged as the world's expert on The Beatles. He is the author of six previous Beatles books and has been described by the Independent as the band's 'Emeritus Professor'.

Here is the Beatles story as it really was. Throw away what you think you know and start afresh. 'A triumph. Not only an enthralling account of the Beatles group's origins, far superior to anything that has gone before, but also an essential piece of social history' The Times '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' Washington Post 'An epic unprecedented in rock 'n' roll biography, and a great read . . . there's a surprise on every page' Mojo 'Likely to become a principle text in twentieth-century studies, a sort of Complete Shakespeare with a much better soundtrack' VH1 'Brilliant in describing the addictive power of rock and roll when there was no imaginable alternative in a doomed town. Turns up the colours in a world that has faded to grey' Herald Scotland 'I was tearing through the book with a hunger' Entertainment Weekly 'Turns the legend of the Beatles into a woven history reading like a work of fiction. Lewisohn has set the benchmark in popular music history that he alone can match' Huffington Post 'With imagination, energy and a gripping plotline, Lewisohn manages to put flesh and blood on the story as never before' Sunday Times Acclaimed as the world authority on the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn is an independent professional historian.

The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so explosively?Mark Lewisohn's three-part biography is the first true and accurate account of the Beatles, a contextual history built upon impeccable research and written with energy, style, objectivity and insight. This first volume covers the crucial and less-known early period - the Liverpool and Hamburg years of a hungry rock and roll band, when all the sharp characters and situations take shape.This is the Beatles like you've never read them before. It isn't just 'another book', it's the book, from the world-acknowledged authority. Forget what you know and discover The Complete Story.

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