![]() Not to put too fine a point on it: it’s big. This is the beginning of the most comprehensive and thorough Beatles biography yet published. If you’re searching for a brief history of the most influential group in pop history you’d best look elsewhere. If detail is what you crave then look no further because this is the tome for which you’ve been waiting. So rich is the narrative that one is often astounded to find when finishing a lengthy chapter that it focused, for example, on a brief three-week period. ![]() The hefty volume (946 pages) explores the many factors that went to make up the quartet in their Fab Four-mative years. ![]() ![]() And so it is that Mark Lewisohn has done an exemplary job of recreating that feeling within his new Beatles biography, the first of a (surely definitive) three-part set. “Every year seemed like five years,” said Paul McCartney looking back at the pre-1963 period of The Beatles. “The Beatles: All These Years Volume 1: Tune In” covers the period up to 31 December, 1962. ![]() George Smith reviews the first of Mark Lewisohn’s three-volume biography of The Beatles. ![]()
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