The Beatles Anthology - the Beatles

The amount of ink dedicated to the Beatles since the band broke up 30 years ago is staggering, especially when you consider that they were only in the greater public conscious for about seven years. Since the band's break-up, various members have had differing degrees of accessibility to the press and public, often providing conflicting versions of their history with the band and what caused its breakup. In The Beatles Anthology, the three remaining Beatles (George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) combine with excerpts from interviews with John Lennon to tell the history of the band's rise and fall in their own words. ...

Did you know Ringo Starr did'nt play the drums on the single version of Love Me Do? Or that when Paul McCartney wrote Yesterday he originally called it Scrambled Eggs? Well these are just a couple of things that you learn when you read "The Beatles Anthology". There have been a lot of books written about The Beatles but this book is The Beatles in their own words. It gives you a real insight iinto what life was like being in one of the greatest bands ever! The good times they had and of course the bad, the singles he albums, the films, the drugs, the people that came in and out of their lives and naturally the fans! The book begins with a ...

The Beatles Anthology will find its way into many christmas stockings this year. I saw this book in all the bookstores about a week ago but priced at £35 it is not an impulse purchase. I had an e mail from Amazon with this book on offer at half price at £17.50 so jumped at the chance to get my hands on a copy. The Beatles were my childhood memories of pop music & I still play their albums on a regular basis. The Anthology charts their rise to super stardom in the most fantastic detail with thousands of pictures, it contains everthing you could ever want to know about the greatest group of all time. This is not a book just of ...