Ebook: The Beatles: The Authorized Biography

1974 reprint. The Authorized Biography updated to include the Beatles' solo careers. (A later paperback reprint was published in 1978 by Mayflower; ISBN: 0-583-115306).


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"This brilliant and penetrating biography has now been brought up to date to cover the years since the most successful pop group of all time broke up amid rows, bickering and legal tangles, and includes detailed accounts of the solo careers of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

All the stuff of a modern rock legend is here . . from the time John had to sell his clothes to get back from Hamburg; to their visit to Buckingham Palace to collect their MBEs, the ultimate stamp of establishment approval —and then, the final tragic day the Beatles were dissolved in a court of law.

This is the true and authorized version of that story —the meteoric rise of four working-class boys who became the greatest musical phenomenon of the 20th century, and whose records still sell in millions.

'There can be no doubt that this is the frankest authorized biography ever written.'
-- THE SUNDAY TIMES"