Book description
There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this
is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the
Beatles ever since.
During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the
Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and
rewrote popular music. As their only ever authorised biographer he had
unparalleled access - not just to John, Paul, George and Ringo but to
friends, family and colleagues. There when it mattered, he collected a
wealth of intimate and revealing material that still makes this the
classic Beatles book - the one all other biographers look to.
Hunter Davies remained close with the band and as such has had
access to more information over the years. This 40th anniversary
edition contains new material which has never been revealed before,
from the author's archives and from the Beatles themselves, that will
bring new insights to their legend.
Hunter Davies is a prolific British author, journalist and
broadcaster, best known for writing the only authorised biography of The
Beatles. As a journalist he worked on the
Sunday Times
, where he was chief features writer, and later editor of the Magazine.
He wrote regular columns for
Punch
and currently writes for
The New Statesman,
the
Guardian, The Sunday Times
and the
Daily Mail
. For three years he presented
Bookshelf
on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of over thirty books, including
biographies, novels and children's novels. He has ghosted everyone from
Gazza and Wayne Rooney to John Prescott. He is also the author of one of
the most classic football books of all time,
The Glory Game
, and his own autobiography,
The Beatles, Football and Me
.
