Lost and Found by Music: Paul McCartney Finds His Post-Beatles Way
Illustrator Nathan Gelgud interprets 'Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s' by Tom Doyle. (READ MORE)
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The Beatles
On the Arrival of the Beatles
In her new book, Penelope Rowlands gathered the thoughts of dozens of cultural presences on the impact of the Beatles. Here, we get her take on it all.(READ MORE)
Rewinding The Beatles: From ‘Dear Prudence’ Back to Their Boyhood in Liverpool
Ten years before Dear Prudence, the Beatles met as teenagers at a church in Liverpool. Mark Lewisohn’s new opus, Tune In: The Beatles, All These Years, Volume 1, charts their rise to fame, and has two more volumes in store for the Beatle-maniac in all of us.(READ MORE)
A Required Reading List for October 2013
Each month, Biographile sorts through all the upcoming releases in biography and memoir, across publishers, to provide a curated reading list of the month's most exciting new titles. Below are our picks for October 2013.(READ MORE)
Memoir in a Melody: The Ballad of John and Yoko
The John Lennon Letters, edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, offers insight into the 1969 song "The Ballad of John and Yoko." (READ MORE)
Creator of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Empire is the Subject of a New Biography, and More
Plus, Beatles biographer Philip Norman takes on Sir Paul McCartney; Johnny Marr, founding guitarist of 80's music-redefiners The Smiths, is writing a memoir; and Beach Boy Brian Wilson is the subject of a new biopic starring John Cusack and Paul Dano. (READ MORE)
Biographile Recommends: Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
There’s a reason Yoko Ono peers penetratingly from the jacket cover of Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Cott’s slim volume of reminiscences and outtakes from the multiple interviews he conducted with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.(READ MORE)
From Us to You: 5 Books That Look at the Influences Of and On the Fab Four
Books that examine the many ideas and experiences that turned The Beatles into one of the most important rock bands of all time.(READ MORE)
Ten Books to Make Dad Glad on Father’s Day
In a shrewd campaign move forty years ago this month, the sitting president designated the third Sunday in June to commemorate “the love and gratitude we bear to our fathers.” Richard Nixon might not be remembered as the “Father of Father’s Day,” but the holiday has survived and thrived despite...(READ MORE)
