I'll make a rash prediction and say the second volume may come out in 2024 for the sixtieth anniversary of the Beatles arrival in America.
I bet you're right, zipp.
I realized, after reading these posts, that I'd gotten Lewisohn's Volume 1 mixed up with Bob Spitz's
The Beatles. I tried to read the latter several years ago and was a bit turned off by the excessive detail, although I've just skimmed through it now, and I no longer have that opinion. That first attempt at reading was during a rather fraught period of my life. I'll have to give it another go.
And now it seems like I'll have plenty of time for Lewisohn's first volume as well.