Beatles - All These Years

''Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves'' The Guardian The Beatles have been at the top for sixty 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.''Mark Lewisohn is the world''s leading Beatles historian and writer'' Nothing is Real - A Beatles Podcast''An absorbing and enthralling account of the lives of all the leading players, written with integrity and honesty'' thecavernclub.com