From: rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid
On 02 Aug 2025, super70s wrote in
rec.music.beatles:
> I collected Beatles books pretty avidly in the '70s through the
> '90s, after a while I gave up because what's the point. Seems like
> 10 new Beatles books get published every year because publishers
> know there's a built-in audience.
>
> I remember the first Beatles book I ever bought though -- well I
> acquired it for free in a radio station contest in 1975. It's "The
> Beatles - An Illustrated Record" by Roy Carr and Tony Tyler. It
> has a sticker on the cover, "Thanks for Listening" and below that
> "WKDA-FM 103.3."
>
> Used to be the hip local station but sadly it went to a country
> music format several years ago.
I don't collect them as much as I used to and I like to think the
keepers are the really good ones. I had gotten Lewisohn's "Tune In"
when it was first published but didn't really have time to devote to it
so I set it aside... and lost it for a decade. I found it last year and
read it from cover to cover. I loved it! Compellingly written, not too
detailed, which was my original fear. I hope Lewisohn will finish the
series, but I'm doubtful now.
I especially like the ones that go into the technical music stuff, like
their recording process and their instruments and studio gear. For that
I like "Recording Sessions", "Recording the Beatles", "Beatles Gear". I
used to like some of the earlier biographies, like the Bob Spitz one
but now they can seem shallow and pandering, maybe because "Tune In"
was so thorough. I started "John Lennon: The Life" by Philip Norman a
couple years ago - it was OK, but I got distracted and didn't finish
it. I'll go back to it one day.
There are plenty of cheaply done, thoughtless Beatle-related books out
there. I have a few, but I know enough to avoid them now.
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