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Post by beatlefreak on Jan 21, 2007 1:13:12 GMT
Hey!I collect Beatles books! I have alot of them! My latest is "The Beatles- A Private View" by Robert Freeman. He was the one who took alot of the Beatles album cover pictures like "Rubber Soul" and "Help" and "With the Beatles"
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Post by =Real♥Love= on Jan 21, 2007 1:56:01 GMT
Hey, that's cool  The latest Beatle book I got was : A Day In The LifeI had to spend my last few dollars from a gift card thing, so I got that. It's supposed to be a day-by-day Beatles journal diary book. (Compiled by Tom Schultheiss) |
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Post by beatlefreak on Jan 21, 2007 16:15:17 GMT
I think I've seen that in a library! It looks cool. I think the best Beatles book is the Beatles Antholagy by the Beatles. ITS HUGE!!! I've read it, but it took me almost a year. Ok, just a few months
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Post by BeatleLuver :D on Jul 11, 2007 22:02:54 GMT
i dont have any beatles books  but i have a bio on john lennon ;D ;D |
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Post by lennonluver on Jul 11, 2007 22:29:51 GMT
I have 'John' by Cynthia and 'The Beatles Chronicle" or sonethin along those lines. But I've borrowed about 20 from the library since there's no way I can afford 50$ Beatles books. I really want Julia Baird's book now. I saw it for 35$ (I'll wait for xmas or my birthday)
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Post by pablofanque on Jul 12, 2007 2:02:44 GMT
I recommend picking up a copy of 'The Beatles in India' by Paul Saltzman. If you like Bob Freeman's work, you'll enjoy Paul's book.
Though I must say everyone on this board needs to own a copy of Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. Voted time and time again - The greatest book ever written about The Beatles.
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Post by lennonluver on Jul 12, 2007 11:42:03 GMT
Ya, my Beatles Chronicle book is written by him (Mark Lewisohn)
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Post by lennonluver on Jul 14, 2007 19:32:20 GMT
I just bought Imagine This by Julia Baird (encase you don't know that's John's half sister) and Ticket to Ride by Larry Kane with a CD too.
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Post by pablofanque on Jul 16, 2007 0:18:43 GMT
Ticket to Ride is without a doubt the most readable book about the Beatles. Prior to and after his time with the Beatles, Larry Kane is and was a full time journalist.
He has a way of writing about his time with the Beatles that literally transports you. He has just an incredible way of writing. Some books are dull to read, with Ticket to Ride, you're on the plane with The Beatles. It's hard to describe. But it's an excellent read, I couldn't put it down.
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Post by lennonluver on Jul 16, 2007 1:35:35 GMT
People, I just finished reading Imagine This (yes I read VERY fast) and I recommend it, of course before you read that, read 'John', amazing book. I really like both of them cos they are from people that actually were very close to him, family I mean, and I like reading books from that point of view
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Post by lennonista on Mar 13, 2008 15:25:48 GMT
People - if you only buy one Beatles book in your life, buy Revolution in the Head by Ian Macdonald. It's reknowned as the best piece of beatles scholarship available. Trust me, you'll read it 25 times, and it will bring the songs alive for you again. Song by song, explaining why it's good or bad, what inspired it and how it was made. Fascinating stuff!!  |
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Post by Mclenarr on Mar 21, 2008 18:49:11 GMT
I found the essays in RItH really heavy and OTT, but the song by song analysis is irresistable. Also The glossary has the definition of a maracas but not a svarmandal which is a bit of an oversight.
For younger fans DO NOT READ ALBERT GOLDMANS TRASHY THE LIVES OF JOHN LENNON...Resist, i have for 20 years.
Yoko put out a collection called Memories of John...which has got a fascinating contribution from John's 70's best friend Eliott Mintz, which is admirably candid. Unfortunately it has a contribution from Bono who's got as many memories of John Lennon as i have of Issac Newton.
I personnally found Cynthias John a bit too bitchy but it's a must read.
Ray Colmans 2 vol. John biog isn't as definitive as he'd like to think...there's nothing in it that's not in other books and it stupidly attempts to promote John's talent over Paul's. Blatantly stating John was a genius but Paul was just very talented!!!
Hunter Davis is unique in having exclusive access to the Beatles while they were The Beatles and his writing is engaging if a bit slapdash. It's also by his own admission sanitsed somewhat. The Beatle stuff in his book Football, the Beatles and me or whatever it's called is a collection of exerts from his revised Official Beatle biog. So, it's not worth buying...and a real rip-off because not only is the Beatle stuff rehashed...It only takes up about 20 pages.
Peter Browns The Love you make has huge credability esp. on Brian Epstein and the Apple debacle. In it he claims Richard Branson sued John for breach of promise when John gave his Student magazine a recording of his dying baby's heart beat rather than a song for a free flexi disc Branson wanted to give away with the magazine. In Branson's biog. he claims he didn't sue...
I haven't read Philip Normans 'anti-McCartney' book Shout! But i have read, or rather skimmed through an article he wrote about Paul during the divorce debacle and it's just so obvious he hates Paul that he only writes about the Beatles to work out his own pathetic resentment and jealousy of good old Paul.
Georges book I,me,mine is o.k for an avid fan but skimpy as that girls skirt on the back cover of Abbey rd. In his notes for My sweet lord he says they'll be more on the legal thing when i write about This song. Which is technically true . He writes about ten more words!
Geoffery Guillano's Revlover-the secret history of the Beatles is a real tacky affair and appropriating the title of a Beatles album for his book is just unforgivable!
Chris Salezwichs, or whatever he's called, biog of Paul is so light-weight i'm suprised it doesn't float off in to space. It mentions George Harrison about 7 times!!!!!
The extent of Pauls colusion with Barry Miles for Many years from now gives that book tremendos credibility but it get's a bit irratating that Paul seems to need to get across his contribution to songs that were generally thought to be wholly Lennon. Half way through i thought 'next it's gonna turn out that Paul wrote Imagine.
Mark Lewisohn's complete Beatle recording sessions is a bit overated, in my opinion, or perhaps it's got to much technical explanation for me, but anyone interested in the Beatles NEEDS to read it!
Mclenarr
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Post by Mclenarr on Apr 17, 2008 0:11:28 GMT
Julia Bairds book on John is so sappy it'll make you wanna spew.
I mean get this:
I had been thinking about the house in Liverpool. I realised that for me it had become a symbol of John's recognition of me and Jackie as our mother's children. It was a space awarded to us, by John, as his sisters. It was a phsyical space, given with spiritual awareness of our family relationship.
It wasn't the money. It was the concept. It was about acceptance, not rejection, big brother looking after small sisters. Our family. The idea of the house was like an umbilical cord. It ran back to Mummy, through John. It was about love.
Guess what? John said he'd bought a house for them but Yoko wouldn't give it them!
Having got that off my chest it's a good book for details on Johns early life but it's very much an attempt to portray Julia in more poitive way and defend her against the accusation that she 'gave John away' Personally, i don't trust it.
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Post by Mclenarr on Apr 17, 2008 0:12:30 GMT
John Wyse Jackson's We all want to change the world is a consice account of Johns life which veers slightly towards the scurrillious while being obviously admiring too. It's a good introduction for new Beatle fans but not worth bothering with for non obssessives. For obsessives you can be thankful that it's not very long.
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Post by alinne on Dec 10, 2008 13:07:56 GMT
Julia Bairds book on John is so sappy it'll make you wanna spew. I mean get this: I had been thinking about the house in Liverpool. I realised that for me it had become a symbol of John's recognition of me and Jackie as our mother's children. It was a space awarded to us, by John, as his sisters. It was a phsyical space, given with spiritual awareness of our family relationship. It wasn't the money. It was the concept. It was about acceptance, not rejection, big brother looking after small sisters. Our family. The idea of the house was like an umbilical cord. It ran back to Mummy, through John. It was about love. Guess what? John said he'd bought a house for them but Yoko wouldn't give it them! Having got that off my chest it's a good book for details on Johns early life but it's very much an attempt to portray Julia in more poitive way and defend her against the accusation that she 'gave John away' Personally, i don't trust it. You have point about the Julia 'gave John away' thing. Also, that excerpt makes me want to spew, too. Highly doubtable.  |
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