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'GET BACK: The Boys Who Became The Beatles' by HUNTER DAVIES

Hunter Davies's new book is titled [Get Back (also referred to as Get Back: The Boys Who Became The Beatles or Get Back: John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me

Explores the formative years and coming-of-age of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr up to 1962.

Draws upon 39 treasured personal notebooks filled with unpublished interviews and notes from the three years (1966–1968) Davies spent shadowing the band as their only authorized biographer.

Length & Publisher: 352 pages, published by Ebury Publishing / Penguin Books.

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‘They did not seem arrogant or entitled. I didn’t see them bossing around their staff or being horrid to studio assistants.

But they did worry if this was all there was. All this fame and fortune, was it really all that great? The world saw them as an overnight success, who had come from nowhere.

But they knew from whence they had come. Perhaps that’s what kept them grounded.’

Hunter Davies, the only authorised biographer of The Beatles, revisits his treasured 39 notebooks filled with remarkable interviews to explore the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo as they were growing up and coming of age.

Drawing on a wealth of never-before-revealed, intimate material, and his own experience as a boy of similar age from a working-class Northern background, Hunter now tells the story of where they came from, what it was like, how it shaped their hopes and aspirations.

Hunter spent three years with The Beatles, visiting all their homes, and each of them visiting his.

He also spent time with their parents, school friends, teachers, girlfriends, members of the Quarry Men and many others from their inner circle.

Their conversations often harked back to the War, with memories of air-raid shelters and rationing, to the NHS coming in, the eleven plus and grammar schools, and council house life in the 1950s.

We all know what they became famous for, but here Hunter takes us into the much more private world of their formative years, for this colourful, richly detailed, personal portrait of the young boys who were destined to come together and revolutionise music and pop culture.

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NEW BOOK: 'BEATLES REWIND'

Beatles Rewind: Essential Stories of John, Paul, George, and Ringo—and the Music That Never Gets Old by Steve Weber

Publication date : May 16, 2026

Print length: 429 pages

Here is the book description on Amazon:

Sixty years after four young men from Liverpool changed everything, the Beatles remain the most written-about, argued-over, and obsessively studied band in the history of popular music. So, what is there left to say?

Quite a lot, it turns out.

Beatles Rewind is a deep dive into the people, the music, and the cultural phenomenon that the Beatles became—and remain. Written by a lifelong Beatles scholar and the creator of the popular Beatles Rewind platform, this book brings together essential essays that examine each of the four Beatles as individuals, the extraordinary alchemy that happened when they played together, and the music that resulted from both.

The book opens where it has to: with the explosion. What was it about that moment—the Sullivan appearance, the screaming fans, the hair, the chord changes—that announced something genuinely new had arrived? From there, it examines each Beatle in depth. John Lennon: the leader, the visionary, and the provocateur who could be the most generous and the most cruel person in any room. Paul McCartney: the untrained genius who wrote melodies by instinct that trained composers spend careers trying to understand. George Harrison: the quiet spiritualist who took longer to emerge but left a body of solo work that rivals either of his more famous bandmates. And Ringo Starr: the steady, joyful, grateful heartbeat without whom none of it would sound quite right.

But Beatles Rewindis more than four biographies. It examines the collective alchemy that made the Beatles something greater than the sum of their extraordinary parts, traces the evolution of their music across the most compressed and radical creative arc in pop history, and asks the questions that matter today: What does this music still mean? What did we almost lose? And what comes next?

Along the way the book explores the wizards behind the curtain—the producers, engineers, and collaborators who helped bring the music into being—and tells the full, complicated story of how and why the greatest band in history fell apart.

This is not a book that assumes you need to be convinced that the Beatles matter. It assumes you already know they do, and it offers you the deeper story: the arguments worth having, the details worth knowing, the context that makes the music even richer than it already is.

Accessible to casual fans and satisfying to serious scholars, Beatles Rewind is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what it is about four young men from Liverpool that still stops you in your tracks when a certain song comes on the radio.

Because it always will.

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THE BEATLES: 1967-1970 & BEYOND. EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

The Beatles: 1967-1970 & Beyond.Every Album, Every Song

by Alberto Bravin and Andrew Wild.

Publisher: Sonicbond Publishing

Publication date: August 28, 2026

Edition PublishDrive

This is the Amazon description:

The Beatles 1967–1970 And Beyond picks up where The Beatles 1962–1966 left off, tracing the band’s most daring and transformative years.

As the Beatles abandoned touring and turned the studio into a creative laboratory, they began an era of boundless invention—Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be—albums that reshaped popular music.

Key songs from this period still define the band’s legacy: the ambition of 'A Day in the Life', the introspection of 'Strawberry Fields Forever', the gravity of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and the optimism of 'Here Comes the Sun'.

Lesser-known tracks deepen the story.

'It’s All Too Much' pushes psychedelia to its limits, 'Flying' embraces mood over form, and 'You Never Give Me Your Money' captures a band splintering yet still creatively unified. The book explores how psychedelia, avant-garde art, Eastern philosophy and cultural upheaval collided with fame, business tensions and four increasingly distinct personalities. It also traces how these final years shaped the Beatles’ solo paths and enduring legacy, from Live At The Hollywood Bowl and Anthology to Love and 'Now And Then'.

Sharp and insightful, the book reveals not just how the Beatles ended, but how they became immortal.

Andrew Wild is a British writer, collector and long-time Beatles fan, who recalls hearing the Red and Blue albums in the mid-1970s and has been in love with their music ever since. He has copies of every known Beatles outtake and live concert recording. His thorough and exhaustive study of every song performed or recorded by the band, Four Sides Of The Circle, was republished in 2024. He has written numerous music-related books, including several in the On Track series, about artists as diverse as Paul Heaton, The Allman Brothers Band and Dire Straits.

Alberto Bravin is a musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is the lead singer of the progressive rock band Big Big Train. Alberto was previously a member of the highly-regarded Italian progressive rock band PFM – Premiata Forneria Marconi (2015-2022), and for many years, he also played with his Beatles tribute band Marshmallow Pies. He lives with his family in Trieste in the north-east of Italy. This is his second book.

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BEATLES BEFORE & BEYOND by CAROLE M.HOPKIN

BEATLES BEFORE & BEYOND is an autobiography and memoir written by Carole M. Hopkin, the sister of the famous 1960s Welsh singer Mary Hopkin.

Rather than a traditional biography of the band, the book offers a unique, firsthand perspective of the 1960s music revolution. After graduating from art school, the author's life was completely upended when her sister Mary was famously signed by Paul McCartney to Apple Records. Carole was instantly swept into the inner circle of the Beatles' world.

Here is the book description (Amazon) :

The ups and downs of being in and out of the limelight. Showbiz from the wings.

Dancing with Sinatra, singing with Robert Mitchum, chatting with the Beatles, dining with Buzz Aldrin, making cake for David Bowie, taking the Duchess of Gloucester shopping, and having strange meetings with Anthony Hopkins have added to a life well-lived, rich with good friends, family, and memories.

As the author graduates from Art School her career path is waylaid by her sister's sudden rise to world fame, and the two girls are whisked from recordings at Apple Records and Abbey Road to first class travel several times around the world.

Through this the author manages to sustain her writing and painting, adding singing, dancing and acting to her C.V. along the way.

She stars in The Mousetrap, and Dr. Who, chats to Richard Burton in New York, and Maxime de la Falaise as she makes Andy Warhol's birthday cake.

She's on board H.M.S. Hermes, entertaining the troops after the Falklands war and gets to paint in George Harrison's garden when she lives in Henley. In Monte Carlo she meets Anthony Burgess and Rex Harrison and parties away with the best of them.
The book sums up the best and the worst of being in and out of the limelight!

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WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU

Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison by Seth Rogovoy, 232 Pages, Here is its description:

How did the most reluctant member of the Fab Four put his mark on all of their music? This book helps listeners hear how George Harrison shaped the sound of The Beatles and how he carried that sound forward into his solo career

Within You Without You is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison's essential contributions to the Beatles and his solo work, as well as his significant role as a Western proponent of Indian music and beliefs. Through close examination of his guitar playing in the Fab Four and his songwriting both in and out of the Beatles, author Seth Rogovoy demystifies the enigma of this most reluctant of rock stars.

Drawing upon the insights of the author--a rock critic and historian of over forty years standing--as well as those of expert observers including Beatles filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg and English rock singer-songwriters Robyn Hitchcock and John Wesley Harding, among others, this book extensively examines George Harrison's contributions to the musical world. Within You Without You will forever change the way readers hear the music of the Beatles and view Harrison's role in the group, as well as enhancing appreciation of Harrison as a cultural figure above and beyond his work as a musician.

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STARTING OVER WITH JOHN AND YOKO: THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Starting Over with John and Yoko: The Photographs

by Roger Farrington

Kenneth Womack

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On August 7, 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made their triumphant return to the recording studio after a self-imposed five-year absence.

Roger Farrington, an up-and-coming photographer from Boston, was hired to get “the shot” that would announce their comeback.

It would be Lennon’s most intense press scrutiny since the heady days of the Beatles’ maiden voyage to America in 1964, and for Farrington, it would be the assignment of a lifetime.

Just four months later, Lennon’s assassination would plunge the world into mourning.

Reproducing, for the first time, the entire run of Farrington’s iconic photographs from that day, Starting Over transports readers back to 1980 and into Manhattan’s Hit Factory, where Lennon and Ono recorded their acclaimed LP Double Fantasy.

With supporting photos and other ephemera, Farrington and renowned Beatles historian Kenneth Womack capture a poignant moment in music history and provide an insider’s look at celebrity photography in the pre-digital age.

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BOOK: MAL EVANS' ILLUSTRATED JOURNEY

With the Beatles: Mal Evans' Illustrated Journey – The First Publication of Mal Evans' Personal Beatles Archive of Diaries Photos and Unpublished Memoir by Kenneth Womack

HERE is the book description from Amazon:

A four-color extravaganza from the Mal Evans archives, including sections from his never published memoirs, his detailed (and humorously illustrated) diaries and hundreds of unseen photographs he took during his time with the Beatles. Truly a goldmine of new insight into the most famous band in the world, from a man who knew them better than most.

Malcolm "Mal" Evans was an integral figure in the lives of The Beatles, acting as everything from roadie and assistant to confidante and, above all else, friend. Even after the band's split, Evans remained close to each member as they ventured out into solo careers, though he was closest to Paul McCartney. And through it all, he kept a detailed diary.

In the 1970s, Mal made a deal with a publisher for a memoir, and the typed manuscript he submitted remained in that publisher's basement until it was discovered by a temp, tasked with cleaning out a storage unit. Along with the manuscript, the temp discovered an amazing collection of photographs and diaries. Instead of throwing them away as instructed, the temp sent a letter to Yoko Ono, who quickly responded. Yoko retrieved the materials, and returned them to Mal's family in England. Unfortunately, Mal had taken his life years prior in a drug fueled showdown with the police.

Now, from the author who wrote our own acclaimed Living the Beatles Legend, comes a visual celebration of the Mal Evans archives. Once thought lost forever, this holy grail for Beatles die-hards is being shared for the first time. With annotated (by Ken) excerpts of Mal's memoir, the first-hand account of life with the world's most important band through the eyes of the man that was there for it all, and bits from his diaries showing the comings, goings, recording schedules, and personal appointments of John, Paul, Ringo, and George, their life as a group, time on the road, and lives after their dissolution.

A companion to Womack's thoroughly researched and family blessed biography of Mal, Living the Beatles Legend, now with the words of the man himself, and featuring hundreds of never before seen photos as well, this will be a beautifully designed must-own for Beatles lovers everywhere.

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BOOK: THE BEATLES ALBUM -RUBBER SOUL - ANALYSIS TRACK BY TRACK

The Beatles Album -Rubber Soul - Every Song- An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles Album Track by Track

The Beatles Every Album Track-by-Track Album Analyses . Dive into the transformative world of Rubber Soul,

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The Beatles' sixth UK album, released on December 3, 1965, and discover the quiet revolution that reshaped pop music. This 168-page in-depth analysis takes you track by track through the iconic album, exploring the raw truths, bold innovations, and behind-the-scenes stories of each song. From the cheeky ambition of "Drive My Car" to the nostalgic yearning of "In My Life," this book peels back the layers of Lennon’s sharp wit, McCartney’s melodic genius, Harrison’s quiet rebellion, and Starr’s steady heartbeat, all elevated by George Martin’s alchemical production.

Set against the autumn of 1965 London, post-Shea Stadium triumph, Rubber Soul marks the moment The Beatles evolved from mop-topped pop stars to a cultural force. Influenced by Bob Dylan’s lyricism, the Byrds’ folk-rock, and the soulful grit of Motown, the album abandons simple love anthems for themes of mistrust, disillusionment, and existential depth. Learn how the sitar’s introduction in "Norwegian Wood" sowed seeds of psychedelia, how a half-speed piano became a harpsichord, and how a Christmas deadline birthed a masterpiece.

This book offers:

Detailed lyric breakdowns, revealing the satire and seduction in "Drive My Car" and the personal reflections in "In My Life."

Insights into the studio magic, from fuzz bass to Greek-style guitar melodies.

Context on the album’s cultural impact, influencing Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds and the shift to cohesive albums.

A track-by-track journey through all 14 songs, including "Nowhere Man," "Michelle," and "Run for Your Life."

Perfect for Beatles fans and music enthusiasts, this guide bridges the upbeat energy of Help! with the darker complexity of Revolver.

With a cover reflecting their weathered, knowing evolution—shot by Robert Freeman with accidental stretched faces—this is more than an album study; it’s a tribute to a band that changed the world.

Plug in, turn it up, and explore the soul of Rubber Soul today.

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Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.38 x 9 inches

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