At the time, the Beatles Let It Be sessions were in a shambles, and the group hadn't gathered in the studio since Aug. Among other things, Baker has said, the book will counter the contention that McCartney was the first to walk away, even though it was McCartney who filed the first legal affidavit seeking dissolution of the partnership. 'It is about the Beatles as a band, the music, but it deals with everything else-the tours, the drugs, the disputes.īut with the outspoken Lennon out of the picture, Beatles fans may sense revisionist history in the making. 'It goes across the board everything is in there,' said Geoff Baker, McCartney's publicist. If the resulting 360-page Beatles Anthology, to be published in the fall, is as tepid as the highly touted Anthologies TV documentary series, then Beatles fans will find yet another reason to rue the day John Lennon fell under gunfire from a demented fan.Ī spokesman for the Beatles-Paul McCartney, 57, George Harrison, 57, and Ringo Starr, 59-has promised that the book will be the frankest account of how the band ruled the pop world in the '60s. In truth, we had healed the wounds already when we decided we wanted to do the book.Smile! The Beatles-George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney-at their final photo shoot.ĪLMOST 30 YEARS to the day (April 10) after they split up, the three surviving Beatles announced last weekend that they have spent the past several years putting all their yesterdays on the printed page for an upcoming official biography. We had a good time doing it, and it brought us closer. In 2002, the book was released as a large-format paperback. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list. John Lennon’s passages were accumulated from various archives and sources, including his December 1970 Rolling Stone interview, his September 1980 interview with Playboy and quotes from the 1967 biography of the band by Hunter Davies. Many of the interviews quoted are from those featured in the documentary films, and additional interviews were conducted specifically for the book.

The book, which is billed as the only autobiography of the Beatles, also features more than 1,200 rare photos and colourful illustrations. It includes interviews with all four band members, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, and others involved, most notably producer George Martin, press officer Derek Taylor and roadie and head of Apple Corps, Neil Aspinall, who oversaw the project. The Beatles Anthology is a book published in October 2000 as part of The Beatles Anthology film project.

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