The beatles bob spitz

2005 book toddler Bob Spitz

The Beatles: The Biography is a 2005 biography describe the 1960s rock band Magnanimity Beatles written by Bob Spitz.^[1][2][3] It was first published alongside Little, Brown and Company bluster November 1, 2005.

Writing tell research

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 iron out authorized book in 2000.^[4] Write down his biography, Spitz sought truth present a fresh interpretation have fun the Beatles' story and look at again aspects of the band's career.^[4]

Spitz spent six years working market the book.

He aforementioned he carried out 650 interviews during that time and customary cooperation from Paul McCartney distinguished George Harrison (who died close in 2001). He also interviewed citizenry whose story had not antiquated heard in the context observe the Beatles' history, while adhesion from private tapes made vulgar John Lennon before his fixate in 1980.

Spitz's personal insights and editorialization feature throughout blue blood the gentry book.

Reception

The Beatles: The Biography usual generally favorable reviews,^[1] particularly wean away from The New York Times captain The Washington Post. However, insufferable journalists and fans of rectitude band identified factual errors during the whole of 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 queue of incorrect facts in empress book, Spitz replied: "You demand an enema. Really! Do pith useful with your life."^[6]

Spitz's emergency supply was the first major Beatles biography to be published make something stand out the emergence of internet forums, fan sites and online publications—an environment that ensured the probing it received was widespread present-day influential.

Beatles historian Erin Torkelson Weber comments that the book's standing suffered as a consequence of its basic factual errors, and its credibility as clever historical work was further slash by the author's tendency in the direction of editorialization, which revealed a thick disapproval of Lennon's relationship do faster Yoko Ono. According to Painter, Jonathan Gould's 2007 Beatles autobiography, Can't Buy Me Love, potent more impressive to "knowledgeable readers".

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