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Summary: outstanding, last word on the Beatles
Review: Absolutely essential for Beatles fans. Most of the Beatles story was already known by the fans and even by the non-fans. What I really liked about this book was their accounting of their pre-fame days. George Harrison's account of how he and Paul as teens hitchhiked for days, slept on beaches and bleachers, hardly had any money and were just two boys out to see the world was touching. Paul and John going to Paris together after John gets a 100 pounds as a birthday gift. The boys almost freezing to death in their unheated van, touring the country (George losing control of it, causing a wreck which injures Neil Aspinall, their roadie, and subsequently getting his license suspended!). Ringo sums it up in the end when he says that the Beatles' story was about four guys who really loved each other. That love really comes through in this book. The four of them lived through an experience that no one else had been or ever will be through. They managed to maintain their sanity and changed the world along the way. Not a bad way to live one's life.
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Summary: The Beatles Fiction/Non-fiction collection is complete
Review: Wonderful, epic book on the Fab Four. Great photos bring John, Paul, Ringo, George back to life. Combined with Alan Arlt's fictional masterpiece on the Beatles, THE CARPET FROGS, this book makes my Beatles collection complete.
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Summary: Very Impressed
Review: I thought that this would just be a worthless coffeetable gift book, but it turned out to be great. This is a must-have for any fan of The Beatles.
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Summary: A must for any Beatles fan
Review: As the group of the century, the Beatles are too much for simple words. But this book does a good job in describing that phenomenon. A lot of eye candy - great pictures... Just grab you CD's and go ahead and indulge yourself!
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Summary: The Greatest Beatles Book!
Review: The Beatles Anthology is a great book. There is so much informations written by themselves. And they are so interesting.
I don't know how many times I read that book, and I still find something interesting and fresh every time I read. They are just
funny, simple, and beautiful. There are a lot of beautiful pictures in the book, very nice. I also like the book cover which is really different from another book. By the way, there are 8 Beattle Anthology video cassettes which are wonderful.
I recommend to everyone who likes music - should have all these Beatles Anthology book, video cassettes and CD. They are the best.
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Summary: Better Beatles
Review: More than you ever wanted to know-My husband loved it, the rabid fan that he is.
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Summary: The Whole Story From the Mouths of the Beatles Themselves
Review: The Beatles story is an incredibly fascinating one. In so many ways their history is not merely of a musical group, even a great one. The Beatles transcended mere music. From 1962-1970, the entire period of their recording career, the Beatles recorded hundreds ofbrilliant songs, groundbreaking albums and lived enough advenutre to fill a lifetime. When this book was published, the three surviving Beatles had lived more than twice as many years since the breakup as the entire time the group was together. It is really remarkable to read (or see in the video) McCartney, Starr and Harrison talking about the Beatle's times from the perspective of late middle age. The story itself will be familiar to any Beatle's fan. The early days in Britain, the crazy days of Beatle mania, the acid drenched mid-sixties when the times began to influence the Beatle's sound and the Beatle's music so headily influenced the times. The flirtation with Indian religion, the death of Brian Epstein, Yoko Ono, the slowly growing rigt and finally the acrimonious breakup. All in an incredible 8 years. What makes this book unique, even from earlier books that quote the Beatles is the perspective of time which has clearly mellowed the three surviviors. Lennon's quote's are necessarily taken from before his death in 1980 and it is interesting to see how his failure to reach middle age lends a different perspective to his memories of the Beatles, in his case memories less than fifteen years old. How fascinating to hear Paul and George discussing the making of "Let it Be" where the bitterness was clear. Paul essentially apologizes and it is nice to know he and George settled their differences before Harrison's death late last year. Not only do I recommend this book, it cannot be missed by anyone interested in the Beatle's history in their own words. No other auto-biography will be as comprehensive for one reason. It will require much of the book to focus on pre and post Beatles years. As I stated, the Beatles recording career lasted 8 years. Today a top band would record at most three albums in that time. Don't miss the book or the video collection
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Summary: A Wonderful, Magical Mystrey Tour of the Beatles!
Review: A great book, by the Beatles. Thousands of great pictures, articles, and captions. Its great that the topsy turvy, confusing, easily-changed story of the Beatles is finally here. Funny, smart, interesting, compelling, brilliant, whatever you want to call it, it is a great archive of the greatest group ever. The Beatles. When you read it, it feels as if the Beatles themselves are sitting directly in front of you, unfolding their very own story. Includes enteries from Derek Taylor, Pete Best, Stu Sutcliffe, George MArtin, and more Beatles friends, it is for the serious pop music fan, committed beatlemainiac, casual fan, or just introduced interested fan, this is for all of us.
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Summary: Massive collection of stuff
Review: If you have extra money, buy it. If you don't ... you're not missing anything important. Remember, it was the music that made them famous. Also a note to readers in the USA, this book could use a glossary of British slang terms used throughout this huge book.
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Summary: still missing something
Review: My wife gave the Anthology book to me for a Christmas present in '99 and I'm reading it randomly. There's a lot of info
from Neil, Sir George and Derek, but I just wish that they had had more printed on poor Mal Evans. It's amazing to know that Mal and Neil were practically the only road crew that The Beatles ever used. Also I wished that Pete Best and Jimmy Nichol were better represented in this book. Overall, it's still pretty good and I'm glad it's reaching out to more younger converts.
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