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11.51pm
19 March 2011
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Well, :,^) but he looks like he's crying. And that'd make me… 8,)
That looks so bad.
2.01am
1 May 2011
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The Beatles Anthology
The Love You Make
Here, There and Everywhere
John Paul George and Rigno
You Never Give Me Your Money
Revolution In The Head
A Day In The Life
Unseen Archives
A Hard Days Write
Shout!
Paul McCartney: A Life
Fab: An Intamate Life of Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now
Postcards From The Boys
John – Cynthia Lennon
Daniel love Trix bunny. Kids mean to bunny. They no give bunny cereal.
5.12pm
10 May 2011
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I own…
Can't Buy Me Love on Finish
Beatles pics on Swedish
Beatles in Level 3
Beatles Anthology
Beatles complete (Piano (Only including the ''most famous'' Northern Songs and Giveaways))&
Beatles Complete (Chords with Lyrics)
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Love Songs Booklet
4.48am
28 May 2011
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Off the top of my head, I've recently read and own…
"John." Cynthia Lennon (so so)
"All Those Years Ago, Miles (very good)
"John Lennon: A Life" , Norman (very good)
"The Lives of John Lennon" Goldman (controversial, but hard to put down)
"You Never Give Me Your Money," Dogget (excellent!)
"Here There and Everywhere," Geoff Emerick (excellent!)
"All You Need Is Ears," George Martin (good,but disappointing)
"The Making of Sgt. Pepper," George Martin (good)
"Ticket to Ride," Larry Kane (not very good)
"John, Paul, George Ring and Me," Tony Barrow (quick, easy and good)
"The Last Cocktail Party," that hippie dude (pretty interesting)
"The Beatles," Spitz (tough to read, but quite informative)
"The Book on Beatles Books" (helpful)
"Wonderful Tonight," Patti Boyd (mediocre)
"Love Me Do," (overrated, but much better than Kane's book)
there are more…
IN the past I've read.
The Lewisohn recording guide..
Lewisohn's Guide to the Beatles
"The Love You Make"
Shout
Growing Up With the Beatles
Coming soon…
May Pang's book "Loving John."
A Pete Best book…
4.56am
28 May 2011
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PennyLane said:
going back to the topic here. I have read:
You Never Give Me Your Money- Doggett
Paul Is Undead- Goldsher (yeah the one where they were zombies)
never finished reading: The Beatles- Spitz
I lack on Beatle readings. However, I did read Miss O'Dell. Has anybody read it? It's about a woman Chris O'Dell and how she lived through the 1960s and 70s working for the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, etc. She goes on about her friendship with George, Pattie, and Mo. George wrote a song about her called Miss O'Dell. It sorta seems like a fanfiction type of book though for some reason. It only bothered me I have never heard of her in any other book or media source.
That's interesting, thanks!
I haven't heard of that one but I'll try to find it!
4.59am
28 May 2011
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Joe said:
One thing that annoys me about this is that the book's out of print, Mark Lewisohn's not making anything from the sale, and the only person profiting is the second-hand dealer. Although I generally like to pay for things I did do a Rapidshare search to see if I could download it first, but couldn't find it ('beatles live lewisohn' gave me a load of bootleg results).
It's a shame the publishers don't keep books like this in print. Roll on Google digitising them.
I totally agree and wonder why they don't.
The Best, Pang, Shotton books are overly expensive cuz of this.
1.48pm
21 May 2011
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Well, I don't really have a lot of Beatles books, but enough to have a top-two:
The Beatles by Tim Hill. The pictures are gorgeous and most of them I haven't seen before. Not exactly a reading book though, it's more for the pictures.
Beatles Gear by someone whose name I do not know. Very informative and interesting, learned things I did not know about John's many instruments.
11.20pm
12 November 2012
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Most of the beatles books I have read came from my brother's bookshelf. One that I actually own is Allan William's The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away. Just like every other book, it has inaccuracies, but it also has interesting stories that I never heard anywhere else.
Things I liked:
Although it was written in 1975, it will never become outdated because it only focuses on the time Williams spent with the Beatles
The interseting fact that John Lennon endorsed the book. 
12.17pm
31 March 2008
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By all accounts Allan Williams used to make up a lot of stuff – still does, apparently. He's more of a storyteller than a historian, but his stories are very good.
5.23pm
29 November 2012
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I've pruned what I have and have gotten rid of a lot of the "fluffy" Beatles books over the years and stick mainly to the legit books. I've got:
Hunter Davies' official bio (the 1996 edition)
Revolution in the Head
Days in the Life
Shout! (2001 edition)
Anthology (hardcover)
Mark Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Chronicle and Complete Recording sessions books
Bob Spitz's bio (which I wasn't as crazy about as some others…I found a LOT of factual errors and inaccuracies in it)
I'm eagerly awaiting the first volume of Lewisohn's definitive bio, but I heard that's been pushed back to sometime in 2013 for a springtime release (it was supposed to be out end of the year originally)
11.39pm
21 November 2012
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I just got a book for Sinterklaas called ''The Beatles, A History In Pictures'' but that's the literal translation from Dutch. It's by Tim Hill and Marie Clayton
Haven't started reading yet though.
Also, according to my mom there must be a book about Sgt Pepper and one about Let it be floating around in the attic, but in here it's like once it gets to the attic it's lost forever.
And I have read the Anthology, my dad once brought it with him from the library. It was huge but a good read, just translated very badly. And they also put Paul's name somewhere where Ringo was talking, so ehh yeah..the translators weren't all too bright.
And I was at a bookstore recently and they had a whole table covered in Beatles books so I think I may buy one. There were ''inside stories'' among them too, but of course I've forgotten who wrote them.
9.51am
15 May 2013
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Oh, a topic on Beatles book collections. Me likes!
I’ve been reading and collecting them since, well, since I started long ago. I believe the first full bio must have been a Spanish translation of the French bio Les Beatles by Alain Dister when I was a young lad. Until then, it was just the records which I knew inside out, but wasn’t so aware on the whole bio thing.
So here’s the list of the books. There are a few others I still have at my parent’s house in Spain, but probably no more than 4 or 5.
All the books are the English original editions unless stated otherwise. I've put the cover of the exact edition I have, except for one or two I couldn't find online.
Andy Babiuk – Beatles Gear (twice, first and second updated edition)
Keith Badman – The Beatles Off The Record, Vol. 1
Keith Badman – The Beatles Off The Record, Vol. 2 The Dream Is Over
Julia Baird, Geoffrey Giuliano – John Lennon, My Brother (Spanish edition)
The Beatles – Let It Be (original 1969 book)
The Beatles – Anthology
Harry Benson – The Beatles, On The Road 1964-1966
John Blaney – Beatles For Sale: How Everything They Touched Turned To Gold
Peter Brown – The Love You Make (twice, Spanish edition and original)
Terry Burrows – Treasures of The Beatles
Peter Ames Carlin – Paul McCartney, A Life
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Roy Carr – Beatles At The Movies: Stories and Photographs From Behind the Scenes
Alan Clayson – Ringo Starr
Ray Coleman – Lennon
Hal Leonard Publ. (ed.) – The Beatles Complete Scores
Hal Leonard Publ. (ed.) – The Beatles Complete
Andy Davis – The Beatles Files
Daily Mail (ed.) – Images of The Beatles, Photographs from the Daily Mail (Swedish edition)
Hunter Davies – The Beatles (twice, 1993 and last updated edition)
Johnny Dean – The Best of The Beatles Book (Beatles Monthly)
Richard Dilello – The Longest Cocktail Party
Alain Dister – Les Beatles (Spanish edition)
Malcolm Doney – Lennon and McCartney
Peter Doggett – You Never Give Me Your Money
William J. Dowlding – Beatlesongs (Spanish edition)
Sean Egan – The Mammoth Book of The Beatles
Geoff Emerick – Here, There And Everywhere
Jordi Serra Fabra – Diario de los Beatles (original Spanish edition)
Jordi Serra Fabra – El joven Lennon (original Spanish edition)
Hugh Fielder – The Beatles Revealed
Robert Freeman – The Beatles: A Private View
Robert Freeman – Yesterday: Photographs of The Beatles
Albert Goldman – The Many Lives of John Lennon (Spanish edition)
Olivia Harrison – George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Mark Hayward – The Beatles Unseen
Mark Hayward – The Beatles On Camera, Off Guard 1963-69
Mark Hertsgaard – A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of The Beatles (twice, Spanish edition and original)
Paolo Hewitt – Fab Gear: The Beatles and Fashion
Tim Hill – The Beatles Unseen Archives (German edition)
Al Hine – Help! (novelisation, orig. 1965 edition)
Larry Kane – Ticket To Ride
Astrid Kirchherr – Yesterday: The Beatles Once Upon a Time
Cynthia Lennon – John
John Lennon – In His Own Write & A Spaniard In The Works
John Lennon – The John Lennon Letters
Mark Lewisohn – The Complete Recording Sessions
Mark Lewisohn – The Complete Beatles Chronicle
Alan Lysaght – Los Beatles (Spanish edition)
Ian MacDonald – Revolution in the Head (twice, original and last updated edition)
Life Magazine (ed) – The Beatles From Yesterday To Today
Life Magazine (ed) – With The Beatles, by Robert Whitaker
Rolling Stone (ed.) – The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs
Uncut (ed.) – The Beatles, Ultimate Music Guide, original 1960's interviews
Larry Marion – The Lost Beatles Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive 1964-1966
George Martin – Summer Of Love (German edition)
Linda McCartney – Life in Photographs
Michael McCartney – Remember: Recollections and Photographs of The Beatles
Don McCullin – A Day in the Life of The Beatles
Barry Miles – Many Years From Now
Barry Miles – A Diary, Day by Day History
Andy Neill – Across The Universe: John, Paul, George and Ringo on Tour and on Stage
Ray Newman – Abracadabra! The Complete Story of Revolver
Philip Norman – John Lennon: The Life
Philip Norman – Shout!
Gary Patterson – The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
David Quantick – Revolution: The Making of the White Album
Hans Rombeck – Die Beatles (original German edition)
Robert Rosen – Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
Kevin Ryan, Brian Kehew – Recording The Beatles: The Studio Equipment and Techniques
Chris Salewicz – McCartney
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Stuart Shea – Fab Four FAQ
David Sheff – The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Howard Sounes – Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Brian Southall – Beatles Memorabilia: The Julian Lennon Collection (Spanish edition)
Bob Spitz – The Beatles
Paul Trynka – The Beatles: Ten Years That Shook The World
Richie Unterberger – The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film
Klaus Voormann – Warum Spielst Du Imagine nicht auf dem weissen Klavier, John? (original German edition, signed by Voormann)
Simon Wells – The Beatles: 365 Days (German edition)
Bob Whitaker – The Unseen Beatles
Bob Whitaker – Eight Days A Week (German edition)
Kenneth Wocmack – Long And Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of The Beatles
And coming this autumm to a bookstore near you:
Mark Lewisohn – All These Years, Vol. 1: Tune In (extended edition)
3.47pm
18 April 2013
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John Lennon: The Life, by Philip Norman
The book with "YES" on the cover that comes in the John Lennon signature box
A collection of the JL Rolling Stone interviews
the book of JL's drawings for/with Sean
The John Lennon Letters
Who Killed John Lennon?
In His Own Write
A Spaniard in the Works
Skywriting By Word of Mouth
Grapefruit (Ono)
John Lennon, Unseen Archives
The Beatles, Unseen Archives
Anthology
The Beatles On the Road (Benson)
Yellow Submarine children's storybook
…I think that's all so far. That's a lot for only being a professed Beatles fan for 10 months.
"Overy clown has a silver lifeboat." --John Lennon
4.35pm
14 December 2009
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Nice collection, Stone…but did we really need to SEE them all?!
5.12pm
18 March 2013
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My Collection:
-The Beatles: The Days of Their Life
-The Beatles: The Authorized Biography – Hunter Davies
-The Beatles Anthology
-Beatles Gear
-In His Own Write – John Lennon
-Harrison – The Editors of Rolling Stone Magazine
-John – Cynthia Lennon
-Who Were the Beatles?
-The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
-The British Invasion: 1964 (Guitar)
-The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook – Hal Leonard
-The Beatles Bass – Hal Leonard
-Best of the Beatles – Hal Leonard
-The Beatles Fake Book – Hal Leonard
-The Beatles Drum Collection – Hal Leonard
-Love Songs of the Beatles (Piano) – Hal Leonard
-Lennon & McCartney (Violin) – Hal Leonard
-Lennon & McCartney 60 Greatest Hits (Violin) – Hal Leonard
-The Beatles Keyboard Book – Hal Leonard
My Laptop:
Beatles Songs: 938 Solo Songs: 403
McCartney: 224 Lennon: 113 Harrison: 42 Starkey: 24
7.14pm
15 May 2013
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Von Bontee said
Nice collection, Stone…but did we really need to SEE them all?!
Well, I find it useful for those among us starting their collections.
You can always skip the post if you feel it's too long.
10.46pm
18 March 2013
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In His Own Write-John Lennon
A Spaniard In The Works-John Lennon
I, Me, Mine-George Harrison
Blackbird Singing-Paul McCartney
The Beatles Authorized Biography-Hunter Davies
Wonderful Tonight-Pattie Boyd
Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison- Gary Tillery
Life in Pictures: The Beatles-Tim Hill (x2 they were only €2.99 so I bought one for keeping and one to cut the pictures out and stick them up on my wall)
Not a bad collection seeing I only started getting Beatles books in December 
10.54pm
14 December 2009
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Stone said
Von Bontee said
Nice collection, Stone…but did we really need to SEE them all?!Well, I find it useful for those among us starting their collections.
You can always skip the post if you feel it's too long.
No, I was happy to look at them! It's just a question of the page taking longer to load.
11.06pm
5 November 2011
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The Beatles Anthology
1.48pm
3 May 2012
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AppleScruffJunior said
In His Own Write-John LennonA Spaniard In The Works-John Lennon
I, Me, Mine-George Harrison
Blackbird Singing-Paul McCartney
The Beatles Authorized Biography-Hunter Davies
Wonderful Tonight-Pattie Boyd
Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison- Gary Tillery
Life in Pictures: The Beatles-Tim Hill (x2 they were only €2.99 so I bought one for keeping and one to cut the pictures out and stick them up on my wall)
Not a bad collection seeing I only started getting Beatles books in December
I heard about this a while back and I meant to get it but I haven't got round to it yet. Is it any good?
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