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fabsies said
Can anyone tell me what the best ringo and George bios are?
I really enjoyed ‘Behind That Locked Door ‘ by Graeme Thomson, others thought differently.
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3.38pm
11 September 2018
Offline I currently own the following Beatles related books:
Anthology by The Beatles
The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies
You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett
Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald
All These Years/Tune In (Standard Edition) by Mark Lewisohn
The Beatles by Bob Spitz
Shout by Philip Norman
George Harrison : Behind That Locked Door by Graeme Thompson
John by Cynthia Lennon
In His Own Write by John Lennon
John Lennon by Philip Norman
Paul McCartney by Philip Norman
Fab – Paul McCartney : An Intimate Life by Howard Souness
Beatles Gear by Andy Babiuk
Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn.
The Beatles Complete Chord Song Book
I’ve previously owned (but passed to various Charity shops) in an attempt to scale down.
The Beatles Lyrics: The Songs of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr. (I actually bought this before I’d heard most of the songs!)
A Hard Day’s Write by Steve Turner
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics by Alan Aldridge
The Beatles Unseen Archives by Tim Hill & Marie Clayton
Here, There And Everywhere : My Life Recording the music of The Beatles by Geoff Emerick
John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me by Tony Barrow
Beatles Diary Volume 1 by Keith Badman
Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life of John Lennon by James Henke
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – The Definitive Life by Tim Riley (I never actually read this!)
Finally, there was a book that was so poor I can’t even remember it. It was black and had a section at the end listing when the songs were written in chronological order and alternative (imaginary) track listings for the albums.
Are there any essential books this forum think I should read?
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Riding So High. by Joe Goodden (founder of this site). Dealing with their relationship with drugs, it’s rightly been hailed as one of the most important new books about them in some time.
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The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
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18 April 2013
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My updated list (I sold back the Philip Norman book, it annoyed me)Lennon, by Ray Coleman
The book with “YES” on the cover that comes in the John Lennon signature box
A collection of the JL Rolling Stone interviews
Real Love , 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
Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies
The collection of Paul McCartney Rolling Stone interviews
You Never Give Me Your Money
The White Book (Ken Mansfield)
Beatlemania! The Real Story of the Beatles UK Tours
Chant and Be Happy (Hare Krishna book with interviews with John, George and Yoko)
The Beatles’ England (a tour guide of important places in Beatle history)
Remembering John Lennon (Life Magazine)
John and Yoko’s Playboy interviews
Tune In Deluxe Extended Edition
The Last Days of John Lennon (Fred Seaman)
John Lennon , The New York Years (Bob Gruen)
The BBC Archives
Inside the Yellow Submarine
The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Lewisohn)
The Beatles Recording Sessions (Lewisohn)
Many Years from Now
John Lennon in My Life (Shotton)
Postcards from the Boys (Ringo)
A Hard Day’s Write
Instamatic Karma
Here, There And Everywhere (Emerick)
Remembering George Harrison (LIFE books)
Living in the Material World
Acorn (Yoko Ono)
The Beatles in America (Leigh)
A Hard Day’s Night (came with the Blu-ray, I have 2 copies of the book)
John Lennon : The Collected Artwork
Lennon Revealed (Kane)
The Lennon Companion
John Lennon –the Stories Behind Every Song
How I Won the War–Photos from the Film
John Lennon : Drawings, Performances, Films
Loving John (Pang)
The Beatles Lyrics (Davies)
The Lost Beatles Interviews (Giuliano)
The Beatles in America (Smithsonian Magazine)
the book in the Harrison/Shankar “Collaborations” box
the books in the Harrison Apple Years and Dark Horse Years boxes
Nowhere Man , Robert Rosen (signed)
John Lennon the Life (Norman–bought it back for cheap after Yoko said he was bi…wanted to look at all the instances again where Norman pointed out John doing gay things).
I Me Mine (Harrison)
Photograph (Ringo Starr )
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
Memories of John Lennon (ed. Yoko)
Lennonology, Strange Days Indeed
The Beatles (Igloo Books)
The Walrus was Paul (Patterson)
Uncut – The ultimate collectors edition
Riding So High (Goodden)
The Beatles, Words Without Music
December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died
Lennon On Lennon
The Beatles, the Authorized Biography (Davies)
Man on the Run (Doyle)
Paul McCartney (LIFE books)
The Gospel According to the Beatles (Turner)
Beatleness (Leonard)
Ringo: With a Little Help
Baby’s In Black (Bellstorf)
Lennon Remembers (Wenner)
Lennon (Coleman – updated edition)
Yoko Ono, Half a Wind Show- A Retrospective
Where’s Ringo?
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2.26pm
11 September 2018
Offline I’ve been going back to the charity shops (online) to buy some more Beatles books:
The Lives of Lennon
Many Years From Now
The Sacking of Pete Best.
6.28pm
18 April 2013
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Nowhere Man , Robert Rosen (signed)
John Lennon the Life (Norman–bought it back for cheap after Yoko said he was bi…wanted to look at all the instances again where Norman pointed out John doing gay things).
I Me Mine (Harrison)
Photograph (Ringo Starr )
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
Memories of John Lennon (ed. Yoko)
Lennonology, Strange Days Indeed
The Beatles (Igloo Books)
Uncut – The ultimate collectors edition
Riding So High (Goodden)
Lennon On Lennon
The Beatles, the Authorized Biography (Davies)
Man on the Run (Doyle)
Paul McCartney (LIFE books)
The Gospel According to the Beatles (Turner)
Beatleness (Leonard)
Ringo: With a Little Help
Baby’s In Black (Bellstorf)
Lennon Remembers (Wenner)
Lennon (Coleman – updated edition)
Yoko Ono, Half a Wind Show- A Retrospective
Where’s Ringo?
I sold back three Beatles books today.
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18 March 2013
Offline I’ll make a catalogue of the books I own in the future but my favourite story (and probably my most valuable Beatles’ book, that isn’t really worth much at all) about procuring a Beatles book is my copy of ‘A Cellarful of Boys ‘, Brian’s book (don’t correct me on that).
I was in a book shop in Galway buying a load of 2nd hand Beatle and Lennon books (I think my total was like €20). I was with my mam, and she was waiting for me to buy the books and leave. While the girl at the counter was totting up my total she said “oh you like The Beatles? Look what we got the other day!”, and she produces a 1966 2nd edition US printing of the aforementioned book. She hands it to me and I go “oh cool, it’s their manager’s book, I’ve never seen a physical copy of it before!”. My mam however, completely misunderstood the message and said “oh that’s very nice of them to give it you, ASJ”, and she put it in the bag along with the other books that I had bought. I think the girl behind the corner found it too awkward to tell me “oh wait no–“, and I was being herded out of the show by mam so that’s how I managed to get my copy of Brian’s book. I think it’s worth about €15 so it’s not going covering my retirement but I like having it on my shelf (and I’m sorry to the shop girl but I have spent €300+ there in the past 4 years so that should make up for it, right, right?!?!)
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‘A Cellarful of Goys’, Brian’s book (don’t correct me on that).
Fixed!
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AppleScruffJunior said
‘A Cellarful of Goys’, Brian’s book (don’t correct me on that).
Fixed!
What did I say, or what? Yuh blind or somethin’?
Don’t make me bring out my stereotypical New Yawkuh accent, Von.
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12.20pm
11 September 2018
Offline I have a Wish List of about 50 Beatles Books on Amazon, some of which are more expensive than others and I’m trying to convince myself not to buy any until I’ve read the ones I bought a the end of last year.
At the top of my wish list is Mark Lewisohn’s ‘Complete Recording Sessions’, the updated edition of ‘Beatles Gear’ and the two Walter Everett books – but they’re £20+ each + P&P for even second-hand copies.
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Offline I found out yesterday purely by chance that my digibook of ‘The Unreleased Beatles’ by Richie Unterberger has been updated to cover the anniversary releases of the ‘Pepper’ and ‘White Album ‘ sets.
I don’t even know how that happened.
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I do not own it but i want it so badly: “Recording The Beatles”
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18 October 2013
Offline Revolution in the Head and The complete Recordings ……….and my Beatle’s monthlies are still the most thumbed……….
I have another half doz or so books in airtight plastic bags under the bed……Must dig them out not even sure what I’ve got…..Still haven’t even opened Tune In…..Tomorrow never comes…..
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15 November 2018
Offline The Abbey Road deluxe came with a big, shiny picture book… very much looking forward to reading it.
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3.09pm
14 December 2019
Offline I finished reading “The Beatles Lyrics” edited by Hunter Davies awhile back. It was quite good from what I remember, with pictures of original manuscripts and personal memoirs from Davies’ original book on the Beatles. It flowed nicely in chronological order and had lots of information on each individual song. I should probably read it again when I find the time.
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5 December 2019
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I finished reading “The Beatles Lyrics” edited by Hunter Davies awhile back. It was quite good from what I remember, with pictures of original manuscripts and personal memoirs from Davies’ original book on the Beatles. It flowed nicely in chronological order and had lots of information on each individual song. I should probably read it again when I find the time.
I just borrowed The Beatles Lyrics as an ebook from my library.
*Edit: I’m an idiot and missed the point of this thread so I took out anything from my OG post that derailed it 
Anyhoo,
I forgot that owned “The Love You Make” by Peter Brown and got the strong urge today to just throw it in the donate bin somewhere. On the opposite end of the likeability spectrum, I really want to own Tune In but I just have to settle for the copy I borrowed from the library. It really is my favorite Beatles book so far and I love all 2000 pages of it and I’m definitely gonna buy the second volume when it’s released. Besides that I have Here, There, and Everywhere by the late Geoff Emerick which I definitely plan on rereading sometime in the summer maybe.
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18 April 2013
Offline The last thing I read was Photograph by Ringo. I’m still slowly making my way through Anthology, I, Me, Mine, and some books of John Lennon ’s art.
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28 February 2020
Offline These four books I have on Kindle. I’ve been through three physical copies of Revolution In the Head. Not that I like his views all that much but it’s the one source Beatle people tend to quote. Actually his views on the world were brilliant. On the Beatles not so much.
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