I was and am not angry. It's just that it does matter to me that the book contains so many errors when a lot of people and certainly younger Beatlesfans take it for facts.
This is a very good point. Those of us who've been reading/researching the Beatles for many years don't need to read stuff that has been inaccurately written. And if newer, much younger fans - such as we have on this forum - read them, possibly as their first Beatles book, it damages their reputation, and creates false history. So picky we shall be.
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
I was and am not angry. It's just that it does matter to me that the book contains so many errors when a lot of people and certainly younger Beatlesfans take it for facts. Maybe I'm being stubborn, but I would never buy another Bob Spitz book, revised or not. Call it 'losing credibility'.
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Quoted from Carry_Anne This Book has many mistakes not buy for now when you ask me...
I've read this book last year and thought it was too long of a read. I also read many other "Beatles' Bios" during the years past. Let me ask you all this: which book do you think is "as close" to the real story of the Beatles??? Maybe there's one I missed out there.................
which book do you think is "as close" to the real story of the Beatles??? Maybe there's one I missed out there.................
I've missed it, too: Hunter Davies' The Beatles, despite being the whitewash John said it was, is still worth reading because it has a contemporary account of The Beatles while they were making Sgt Pepper. Philip Norman's Shout! isn't bad, but the writer hasn't bothered to correct his errors despite several having put out several updated editions, and his take on Paul McCartney is the usual looking-down-his-nose seventies rock critic one. I'm waiting for Mark Lewisohn, actually.
^^^^^^Thanks Geoff. I haven't got Hunter Davies book of the Beatles, but will do so. And Mark Lewisohn is writing a book???? When is it going to be released???? And I hate to admit, but I did like the "trashy" The Love You Make by Peter Brown. I kinda like the "trashy" rock-star books...............
Throughout his long association with the Beatles, Mark Lewisohn has maintained a reputation for neutrality, objectivity and independence. These attributes will be paramount in his most ambitious project of all. Between 2003 and 2018 Lewisohn is giving his undivided attention to researching and writing what many feel could become the benchmark history of the Beatles and their times. To be published in three volumes - the first due out in 2010, then 2014 and finally 2018 - a mature narrative will draw upon extensive additional research, access to archives and literally thousands of interviews.
Says Lewisohn, "The Beatles story has been told very often but, in my view, rarely very well. I’m writing a wide-ranging history and my aim is true: to explore and comprehend what happened in and around the Beatles, and to write it even-handedly, without fear or favour, bias or agenda. A rock and roll group came out of Liverpool and shaped the last half of the 20th century the world over, and their music transcends changing times. The whole extraordinary story needs to be fully recorded and it needs to be done now, while first-hand witnesses are still with us."
The three volume series - as yet untitled - has been signed up by Little, Brown for the UK, Crown Publishing for the USA, and Kawade Shobo Shinsha for Japan.
Hmmmm. The Complete Beatles Chronicle in more detail. Well, I'll certainly add these volumes to my library (which consists only of The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles (Hunter Davies), The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and Beatles Gear (Andy Babiuk).
^^^^^Very interesting info there, Geoff!!!! I'll damn sure keep my eye on this and when they come out, definitely add these to my Beatle book collection. Thanks for the information............
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