 | The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $1.68 If you buy one Beatles book...this is it. I had the feeling of walking the streets of Liverpool with the boys. Fascinating.
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 | Backbeat (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.76 I know...I know...this isn't a book. It's a DVD! But it captures the vibe, the feel so increidibily well that I felt compelled to add it to this list.
What I found most facinating was.....within the first 15 minutes I was seeing the Beatles and not the actors.
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 | A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry by Mark Hertsgaard
Buy used from: $2.90 Outstanding! One of the very best Beatles books. Truly captures the essence of the era and the Beatles.
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 | All You Need Is Ears: The inside personal story of the genius who created The Beatles by George Martin
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.22 Facinating!!! A look behind the scenes from the unique viewpoint of George Martin.
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 | Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $5.90 Studio mavens and musicians will love this book. Geoff is very candid and shares many of his unsettling ideas and observations of his years with the Beatles. It may not appeal to the general public.
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 | The Beatles Anthology by Beatles
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $10.00 Very inclusiveand covers a lot of material. Not for the causual Beatles reader. Great photos.
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 | The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook the World by DK Publishing
Buy used from: $16.96 A novel and facinating view of the Beatles stellar career.
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 | The Man Who Made the Beatles: An Intimate Biography of Brian Epstein by Ray Coleman
Buy used from: $6.00 Neither callus nor syrupy expose on the topography of Brian Epstein's life and what he meant to the Beatles as a friend and visionary.
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 | The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul by Walter Everett
Buy new: $26.20 / Used from: $20.40 This is definately for the academically inclined musician. I bought both his books and never finished reading them as I found myself bored. However, in Everett's defense...these books are very well researched.
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