The result is an extraordinary wealth of visual material brimming on each and every page.Įverything Beatles! By the Beatles! What could be wrong Paul, George, Ringo, and Yoko Ono Lennon all opened their own archives just for this project, as did Apple, EMI, and others long associated with The Beatles, allowing the unprecedented release of photographs, documents, and other memorabilia from their homes and offices. The Beatles Anthology features over 1300 images, most previously unpublished.

The Beatles Anthology is, in effect, The Beatles autobiography.

Created with the full cooperation of Paul, George, Ringo, and Yoko Ono Lennon, it also includes the words of John, painstakingly compiled from sources worldwide. The Beatles Anthology is, for the first time, the story of The Beatles by The Beatles. The Beatles Anthology is a once-in-a-lifetime volume: warm, frank, funny, poignant, and bold-just like the music thats been a part of so many of our lives.

Interwoven with The Beatles own memories are the recollections of such associates as road manager Neil Aspinall, producer George Martin, and spokesman Derek Taylor.

The international best-seller is now in paperback! From their years growing up in Liverpool through their ride to fame to their ultimate breakup, heres the inside story.

An enthralling book for any Beatles fan (tons more fodder for trivia challenges: which songs have only two Beatles playing on them? what did Paul buy John for his 21st birthday?) or child of the 1960s. Harrison is especially honest about drugs, McCartney remains somewhat coy. Lennon always had the image of the working-class rebel, but even in the 1960s, he often sat docile for the stupid things the Beatles were expected to be and do, while Harrison sometimes said, 'I don't have to do that.' The book is especially illuminating for the period of touring Britain in 1963 between their first EMI sessions and heading to the U.S. For someone who has read the Hunter Davies, Philip Norman, _Lennon Remembers_, _Apple to the Core_, _A Hard Day's Write_ and other accounts, perhaps the biggest surprise of this version is how sharp and independent George Harrison is (and was). Extensive print and broadcast interviews with Lennon are woven seamlessly into the mix, and there are contributions from some of the other players - e.g., George Martin, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor. A huge coffee-table size history of the Beatles, chockful of hundreds of photographs, color and black and white, with text consisting solely of interviews with and commentary by the lads themselves. In more ways than one, the BIG bestseller of 2000.

The beatles anthology paperback