The mammoth book of The Beatles

Over 30 landmark interviews, accounts, and memoirs of The Beatles and their entourage, recording how they inadvertently became counter-culture?s figureheads and changed society.

The pieces include Paul Johnson?s ?The Menace of Beatlism?, Maureen Cleave?s ?Beatles Bigger than Christ? feature, the News of the World feature suggesting The Beatles were spent forces ? just before they unleashed Sergeant Pepper on the world ? interviews with their entourage and main loves; plus latter-day contributions from the likes of Paul Gambacinni, Dave Marsh, Greil Marcus.

Also included is a chronological tracing of each Beatles album and single, and analysis of all Beatles movie releases and television appearances.

CONTENIDO

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Life and art
- With the Beatles - Pre-fame
- National attention: Why the Beatles create all that frenzy
- Beatleamania!
- The squares dig The Beatles: What songs the Beatles sang
- Bigger than Jesus: How does a Beatle life?
- Why the touring had to end: Beatles, go home!
- Courted by the intellectuals: Atticus: All Paul
- Whatever happened to the Beatles?: At the crossroads
- The first critical drubbing: Beatles on TV baffle viewers
- Apple: The big business Beatles
- Chris Thomas on recording the "White album"
- The revelation of the end
- The scoop on the split: Paul is quitting The Beatles
- An obituary
- No way back

Part Two: Dissenters
- The menace of Beatlism
- MBE? You're joking of course
- Dandelions in still air: the withering away of The Beatles
- Penny Lame
- Living life without loving The Beatles

Part Three: Film and TV
- A hard day's night
- Help!
- The Beatles TV Cartoon series: Beatletoons
- The Beatles at shea stadium documentary
- Magical mistery tour
- Yellow Submarine
- Let it be
- Anthology

Part Four: Beatle women
- Astrid Kirschherr
- Cynthia Lennon
- Pattie Boyd
- Yoko Ono
- Linda McCartney

Part Five: Interviews
- Pete Best
- George Martin
- Paul McCartney
- Bill Harry

Part Six: And in the end...
- Masters of Rock: The Beatles

Appendix
- The Beatles and Solo Beatles
- Comprehensive UK Discography