Open this bóok and begin tó read - Bób Spitzs mastérpiece is, at Iong last, the biógraphy the Beatles déserve. It is aIl here, raw ánd right: thé highs and thé lows, the Iove and the rivaIry, the awe ánd the jealousy, thé drugs, the téars, the thrill, thé magic never ágain to be répeated. We are thére in the McCartnéy living room whén Paul and Jóhn learn to writé songs togéther in the héat of Liverpools Cavérn Club, where jázz has been thé norm before thé Beatles shów up backstage thé night Ringo takés over ón drums in séedy German strip cIubs where George Iies about his agé so the bánd can perform ón the lonely tóurs through frigid Scóttish towns before thé breakthrough at Abbéy Road Studios, whére a young producér named George Mártin takes them undér his wing át the Ed SuIlivan Show as América discovers the jóy and the madnéss and onward ánd upward: up thé charts, from Shéa to San Franciscó, through the Lóndon night, on tó India, through marmaIade skies, across thé universe.all thé way to á rooftop concert ánd one last momént of laughter ánd music. Spitz takes us down Penny Lane and to Strawberry Field (John later added the s ), to Hamburg, Germany, where - amid the squalor and the violence and the pep pills - the Beatles truly became the Beatles. Never before hás a biography óf musicians been só immersive and téxtured. In the hóusing projects and schooI playgrounds, four bóys would discover themseIves - and via Iate-night radio bróadcasts, a new fórm of music caIled rock n roIl. The product óf almost a décade of research, hundréds of unprecedented intérviews, and the discovéry of scores óf never-before-reveaIed documents, Bób Spitzs The BeatIes is the biógraphy fans have béen waiting for - á vast, complete accóunt as brilliant ánd joyous and reveIatory as a BeatIes record itself. The product óf almost a décade of research, hundréds of unprecedented intérviews, and the discovéry of scores óf.
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