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The Beatles: The Biography      List Price : $39.95 USD        Your Price : $29.16 USD      ProductGroup: Book      Release Date : 2005-11-15      Studio : Simon & Schuster Audio      Label : Simon & Schuster Audio      Avg. Customer Rating : (205 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Beatles The Biography      Great starting point; not-so-great ending point      Rating:      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 slow. I LOVED it. But by the final third of the book, things are moving in fifth gear, and the forward thrust leaves the late-period Beatles' cultural significance--amazingly--on the borders. Second: Mr. Spitz is smug about how good his book is. Here's a few thoughts: while Mr. Spitz bashes Albert Goldman's biography of John Lennon, I have to say that I got a much better idea of who Lennon was from Mr. Goldman's effort than from that of Spitz. This is a little weird, because Mr. Spitz wrote his tome roughly two decades after Mr. Goldman (and therefore had about 20 extra years to find things out), and Mr. Spitz announces in his work that he worked partially from tape-recorded interviews that Mr. Goldman had made much earlier but mined only triflingly for his Lennon biography. In sum, this is a solid, very well-researched effort, but one that lacks an overall harmony and that will have little new information for true Beatles junkies.     Customer Reviews for The Beatles The Biography Cd      Must-Read for Beatles Fans      Rating:      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 that serve as inspiration for many of their best-known - is well-detailed. If you are a music scholar or have scrutinized the Beatles' backgrounds, then this book is probably not for you. But if you're a big fan and would like to know something of the backgrounds of the Big Four, their personalities, what Beatlemania was all about, who they slept with, how they got inspiration, and so on, you'll really enjoy this. It's a fun read. It is completely accurate in all respects? Judging by the other reviews, probably not. But I doubt it is possible to assemble a comprehensive and accurate biography. So much happened and most of that is 40-plus years ago. But the book provides an compelling and absorbing picture of the dynamic of the group, the forces that drove them to make great music, the forces that drove them to compete against one another and that ultimately drove them to break up. Even at approximately 900 pages (hardback verson) it was impossible to put down. Editorial Reviews for The Beatles The Biography Audio Cd      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.