From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2025-08-03 00:33:37 +0000, Nil said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Although it isn't as comprehensive as Lewisohn's tomes I have something   
   called "The Beatles' The Long & Winding Road - A History of the Beatles   
   on Record." Also the Hunter Davies biography (in hardcover), "The   
   Beatles Forever" by Nicholas Schaffner (probably my all-time favorite),   
   "The Beatles A-Z -- The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia," "Shout!" by   
   Phillip Norman, "The Beatles," a nice illustrated coffee table book by   
   The Times Press, "With the Beatles - The Photographs of Dezo Hoffmann,"   
   and "Tell Me Why" by Tim Riley, to name the highlights.   
      
   Also several bios of the individual members. My sister gave me "Lennon   
   Legend - An Illustrated Life of John Lennon" as a Christmas present one   
   time. Also "John Lennon - One Day at a Time" by Anthony Fawcett,   
   "Dakota Days," "McCartney," "I Me Mine" and Albert Goldman's "The Lives   
   of John Lennon."   
      
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