The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is not a bad book if you want a single volume history of the band. It starts with each of the Beatles as boys, and follows them through the early years of the Quarry Men, then the time in Hamburg, through Beatlemania and up to the breakup. It is not as comprehensive or as reliable as Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In, but then nothing else is. Spitz does get most of the main points correct. So while it is overall a good book, there are factual errors. It was generally well-reviewed and was the first major re-evaluation of The Beatles following the Anthology release.



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