Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created.
This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and
filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this
manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth -
until now.
The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of
unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of
never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitz''s The Beatles is the
biography fans have been waiting for -- a vast, complete account as
brilliant and joyous and revelatory as a Beatles record itself.
Spitz begins in Liverpool, a hard city knocked on its heels. In the
housing projects and school playgrounds, four boys would discover
themselves -- and via late-night radio broadcasts, a new form of
music called rock ''n roll.
Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and
textured. Spitz takes us down Penny Lane and to Strawberry Field
John later added the s, to Hamburg, Germany, where -- amid the
squalor and the violence and the pep pills -- the Beatles truly
became the Beatles. We are there in the McCartney living room when
Paul and John learn to write songs together; in the heat of
Liverpool''s Cavern Club, where jazz has been the norm before the
Beatles show up; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in
seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the
band can perform; on the lonely tours through frigid Scottish towns
before the breakthrough; at Abbey Road Studios, where a young
producer named George Martin takes them under his wing; at the Ed
Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness; and
onward and upward: up the charts, from Shea to San Francisco,
through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies,
across the universe...all the way to a rooftop concert and one last
moment of laughter and music.
It is all here, raw and right: the highs and the lows, the love
and the rivalry, the awe and the jealousy, the drugs, the tears,
the thrill, the magic never again to be repeated. Open this book
and begin to read -- Bob Spitz''s masterpiece is, at long last, the
biography the Beatles deserve.
關於作者：
Bob Spitz has represented the careers of Bruce Springsteen and
Elton John. He is the author of The Making of Superstars, Barefoot
in Babylon, Dylan and Shoot Out the Lights. His articles appear
regularly in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler,
Men''s Journal, In Style, Esquire, Sky, and the Washington Post. He
lives in Connecticut and can be reached at: thebeatles@bobspitz.com.
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