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Loading... The Beatles: The Biographyby Bob Spitz
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I've read almost every Beatle book there is (almost), and this is by far the best!! (  ) silenageige | Sep 12, 2009 |  Bob Spitz is a great writer who goes deep in uncovering the truths of what happened and how the Beatles got big and reminds you they were humans, after all. this is a great spanned biography probably the best and the most unbiased I have read. it shoots down myths and theories like the Beatles are the new Freud. cuz, they lyke are duh. ( ) TakeItOrLeaveIt | Feb 21, 2009 | In The Beatles: The Biography, Bob Spitz shares the story behind the Beatles' successes and failures. It's a fairly comprehensive biography, exploring the music, the business, and the Fab Four's personal lives. As a casual admirer of the Beatles, I learned a lot from this book, but I doubt that serious Beatles enthusiasts would find much new information here. Particularly fascinating to me were the insights into the music itself. Less interesting to me were the chapters on the Beatles' early years. The gossipy bits about who the Beatles dated and when were only interesting to me when these relationships affected the music (as the introduction of Yoko Ono did). However, a biography of the band would be incomplete without this information, so I'm not sorry it was there---I was just mostly interested in the music. See my complete review at my blog. (  ) teresakayep | Oct 2, 2008 | This excellent book is comprehensive yet compulsively readable. Spitz is straightforward about his sources and provides probably the most authentic version possible of the Beatles' mythic rise to fame, the crazy years of Beatlemania, and their eventual disintegration. His discussions of the albums will make you want to get out your iPod and revisit forgotten gems. (  ) literarysarah | Jul 15, 2008 | I'm still reading it (in fact, I began and stopped -- I can't find time to go on with it), but the first pages were very interesting. quietguy | Apr 30, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316803529, Hardcover)As soon as the Beatles became famous, the spin machines began to construct a myth, a myth that has continued to this day. Biographers have come and gone, each repeating the story precisely as they were meant to. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving. Now, after years of research around the world, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the mining of tens of thousands of documents (many never before seen), Bob Spitz has written the masterpiece biography that Beatles fans have been waiting for. Spitz restores the Beatles to what they were: a loud, angry, rock and roll bandkids who became gods, not gods who happened to look like kids. This is a biography of a band in full, not the story of John and Paul and their two mates from Liverpool. Here we see a vibrant Ringo, sharply portrayed for the first time, willing the Beatles to produce the classic White Album. And here we see in vivid focus Georges wild passion for innovative music.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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