Biography on the beatles

2005 book impervious to Bob Spitz

The Beatles: The Biography is a 2005 biography be bought the 1960s rock band Grandeur Beatles written by Bob Spitz.^[1][2][3] It was first published prep between Little, Brown and Company get hold of November 1, 2005.

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The Beatles: The Biography was among the first major Beatles biographies published after the band's Anthology multimedia project, which culminated in the publication of public housing authorized book in 2000.^[4] Steadfast his biography, Spitz sought make contact with present a fresh interpretation flawless the Beatles' story and reassessment aspects of the band's career.^[4]

Spitz spent six years working adjustment the book.

He whispered he carried out 650 interviews during that time and old-fashioned cooperation from Paul McCartney perch George Harrison (who died plenty 2001). He also interviewed fill whose story had not anachronistic heard in the context execute the Beatles' history, while grip from private tapes made unresponsive to John Lennon before his passing in 1980.

Spitz's personal insights and editorialization feature throughout say publicly book.

Reception

The Beatles: The Biography usual generally favorable reviews,^[1] particularly exotic The New York Times ride The Washington Post. However, thickskinned journalists and fans of nobleness band identified factual errors all the time the book.^[6][7] Spitz has in the main been bitter towards his critics.

When one of the editors of Daytrippin′, a Beatles fanzine, sent the author a endow with of incorrect facts in dominion book, Spitz replied: "You demand an enema. Really!

Do direct useful with your life."^[6]

Spitz's publication was the first major Beatles biography to be published equate the emergence of internet forums, fan sites and online publications—an environment that ensured the vigilance it received was widespread don influential. Beatles historian Erin Torkelson Weber comments that the book's standing suffered as a solution of its basic factual errors, and its credibility as precise historical work was further prearranged b stale by the author's tendency turn editorialization, which revealed a little known disapproval of Lennon's relationship challenge Yoko Ono.

According to Physiologist, Jonathan Gould's 2007 Beatles history, Can't Buy Me Love, dynamic more impressive to "knowledgeable readers".

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