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The Truest Beatles Biography Yet
Even if you're a casual fan of The Beatles, you probably have at least one book about the band on your shelf. Whether it's a coffee-table affair featuring photographs of the recording session for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," an analysis of the making and significance of Revolver, a memoir of an intimate (or not-so-intimate) of the band, or a listing of every bootleg recording known to circulate, there are literally thousands of books on The Beatles dealing with every niche imaginable. And yet, there are barely a handful of serious biographies about the band, and until now, there have been frankly no good ones.
Author and historian Mark Lewisohn was probably the perfect person to change that. His massive but engaging biography of the boys from Liverpool, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, is the first in a promised trilogy and took ten years to complete. Lewisohn began his scholarship on The Beatles thirty years ago wit
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Beatles in Rolling Stone: A Timeline
December 23rd, and January 6th,
Thirty years after John Lennon was killed, Rolling Stone paid tribute again by printing the entirety of the Beatle's final interview from and a moving new piece by Yoko Ono chronicling the singer's final days, as he and she were promoting their Double Fantasy LP. "The very last day of John's life, we woke up to a shiny blue sky spreading over Central Park," she wrote. "The day had an air of bright eyes and bushy tails. &#; In a room next to the control room, just before we left the studio, John looked at me. I looked at him. His eyes had an intensity of a guy about to tell me something important. 'Yes?' I asked. And I will never forget how with a deep, soft voice, as if to carve his words in my mind, he said the most beautiful things to me. 'Oh,' I said after a while, and looked away, feeling a bit embarrassed. In my mind, hearing someth
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20 Best Music Books of
If you're a fan of both rock and reading, had much to offer. Some of the year's best music books centered around big-name artists, like Mark Lewisohn's insanely detailed Beatles bio Tune In, as well as cantankerous autobiographies from both Morrissey and Steely Dan's grump-in-chief Donald Fagen. But great reads came from all corners &#x; from Joe Mansfield's coffee table book on classic drum machines (essential gawking for music-gear fetishists), to Rob Sheffield's brilliant memoir-cum-karaoke-treatise Turn Around Bright Eyes, to the terrific heavy metal history Louder Than Hell, a classic tale of sex, drugs and Satan that'll thrill even non-headbangers. Read on for our top
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