[BEATLES]. DAVIES, Hunter. The Beatles. The Authorised Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.1968.
8vo. Original cloth with dust wrapper; very good copy
First edition. This was the only authorised biography of The Beatles and was written while they were still together, during which time Davies came to know the individual Beatles well. The book ends looking forward optimistically to future Beatles projects with no hint of the rancour that soured Let It Be and Apple Corps. Paul and John are still with Jane Asher and Cynthia Lennon respectively, George has yet to really arrive as a songwriter and Ringo - well, Ringo is just Ringo. This book was published when they were at their highest peak and is a heady, intimate memoir of the period when they could not put a foot wrong.
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