Three-volume beatles biography briefly
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By Karen
When Erin asked me to write a review of her book, The Beatles and the Historians, I welcomed the opportunity. As far as I was concerned, a well-researched, scholarly examination of Beatle biography was long overdue. Also long overdue was the inclusion, at long last, of a woman’s voice; a voice which could add the necessary counterweight to the heavily masculinized treatment of the official Beatle narrative.
The Beatles and The Historians is an historiographical analysis of the Beatle phenomena. Historiography seeks to understand the ‘how’ of history—how historical narratives are constructed, by whom, using which data sources and with what objectives.
Key data sources included for review in The Beatles And The Historians are biographies such as Philip Norman’s Shout!; Hunter Davies’ The Beatles, An Authorized Biography; Jann Wenner’s Lennon Remembers; Barry Miles’ Many Years From Now; Ian McDonald’s Revolution In The Head; and many others. The process of selecting biographical data sources was based on a number of variables, including
how well the books sold, its critical reception both when it was published and decades later, the amount of original research it contained, its role in shaping or diverging from the prevailing narrative, a
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Author Mark Lewisohn (Photo by Michael Priest)
Mark Lewisohn has been fascinated by The Beatles ever since he was a pre-schooler in his native England, hearing for the first time their string of number ones on British radio. Hooked from the start, Lewisohn went on to become, and it’s no exaggeration, their number one fan. In 1979, the year before the senseless killing of John Lennon in New York, he started researching them professionally, going on to publish several books on them before coming to collaborate directly with them when researching The Beatles’ Anthology and, later on, liner notes for Paul McCartney’s solo projects. But his major opus is Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years (Vol. 1), the first in a three part history which was published late last year, and to great critical acclaim. An unauthorized biography, and yet one written with the benefit of insider knowledge, Tune In revisits The Beatles’ story with an attention to detail that is staggering. Volume one starts with The Beatles’ ancestors in another century and ends on New Year’s Day 1963, just as The Beatles are on the cusp of world-wide fame. Ringo joins the band only on page 672, to give an idea of its scope. “It is my life’s w•
Mark Lewisohn
English initiator and scholar (born 1958)
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