I’ve read a lot of Beatles books since I was a teenager, and all of them have helped in the writing of this guide. Should you want to dive deeper into the Beatles story and feed your growing Beatlemania, here are some recommendations to get you started.
The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (Chronicle Books, 2012)
Michael Braun, Love Me Do!: The Beatles’ Progress (Graymalkin Media, 2019)
Alan Clayson, Ringo Starr (Sanctuary Publishing, 2001)
Hunter Davies, The Beatles Book (Ebury Press, 2019)
Richard DiLello, The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider Account of The Beatles & the Wild Rise and Fall of Their Multi-Million Dollar Apple Empire (Alfred Publishing, 2014)
Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of The Beatles (Vintage, 2010)
Tom Doyle, Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s (Polygon, 2014)
Cynthia Lennon, John (Hodder Paperbacks, 2006)
John Lennon, A Spaniard in the Works (Canongate, 2014)
John Lennon, In His Own Write (Canongate, 2014)
Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles: All These Years Volume 1: Tune In (Little, Brown, 2015)
Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Chronicle (Hamlyn, 2000)
Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties (Vintage, 2008)
John McMillian, Beatles vs. Stones (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
Ken McNab, And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles (Polygon, 2019)
Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Vintage, 1998)
Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life (HarperCollins, 2009)
Philip Norman, Paul McCartney: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017)
Philip Norman, Shout! The True Story of The Beatles (Pan, 2004)
Yoko Ono, Grapefruit (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
David Quantick, Revolution: The Making of the Beatles White Album (Spruce, 2002)
Derek Taylor, As Time Goes By (Faber & Faber, 2018)
Graeme Thomson, George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door (Omnibus, 2016)
Steve Turner, Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year (Ecco, 2017)
Jann S. Wenner, Lennon Remembers (Verso, 2001)
I would also heartily recommend a trawl through the Beatles Bible website – www.beatlesbible.com – an amazing wealth of information and great stories. Also of great help in putting together this guide was www.rocksbackpages.com, an amazing archive of music reviews and features, and www.officialcharts.com for UK chart statistics.