Must read advice please!

I've read Hunter Davies book (love it because it's as if the Beatles are
still together, at least in the old version I read!) and the Anthology Book.
I own two Lewisohn books (Chronicles and Recording Sessions). Now I'd like
to read another book (biography). Which is an absolute MUST HAVE? That tells

saki...

As you've probably found out, there isn't one book that tells all. I'm a
fan of Davies' book too (first edition), despite the fact that the Fabs
requested changes to the text to protect family members from finding out
a little too much about them. Davies details some of these changes in his
foreword to the 1985 edition. But it's interesting to see how someone
chronicled their lives during a period when it was all still happening.

it ALL? I thought about Emmerick's Here There And Everywhere, because he was
really there, but it's not a real biography (is it?). But maybe I should

saki...

It's an impression of his time spent working for Abbey Road Studios as
well as the Beatles, and is worth a read, as long as you keep in mind
that his recollections are not objective.

read another? Like the Biography by Bob Spitz, which is pretty new?

saki...

You might want to wait for the corrected second edition. There are a
number of errors in the book, particularly in the captions. Spitz has
indicated these will be corrected. I hope the publisher gives it another
thorough proofreading too, maybe with a fact-checker on board this time.

BTW I like a book with a positive look at the Beatles, but I don't want a

saki...

For a musical approach to their lives you might enjoy "The Beatles" by
Allan Kozinn (Phaidon, 1995, distributed by Chronicle Books, part of the
20th-Century Composers series).

For articles about the Beatles, some of them published contemporaneously
with their initial fame, you might like "The Lennon Companion" by Thomson
& Gutman; it's really more about the Beatles than about Lennon
specifically.

book that praises EVERYTHING. ;) But I d not need a book that bashes them to
pieces.

Runnnerr...

I believe that it's out of print, but try to find Lewisohn's Beatles
Live book. Ray Coleman's biogrpaphies of John Lennon and Brian Epstein
were also quite good.