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2009; Hunter Davies; The Beatles: The Authorised Biography; 544 pages; 9781407027524; Ebury Publishing, 2009 The Beatles: The Authorised Biography The Beatles The John Lennon Letters The Beatles, Football and Me The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles As the authorised biography of The Beatles you'd expect Hunter Davies' account of the lives of Fab Four, from their very birth to the final breakup of the band, to be factually accurate and without the flaws that are sometimes seen in other biographies and hustled together books on the phenomenon that ended up being called Beatlemania. Unfortunately, as Hunter Davies himself points out in the notes and additions that accompany the original biography, the story had to be approved by each individual member of The Beatles and, in one case (Brian Epstein), relatives too. So what we end u The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career. Davies published revised editions of the book in 1982, 1985, 2002 and 2009. - From The Beatles, the authorized biography by Hunter Davies. thateventuality. Follow.Â - The Beatles Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies. In terms of Georgeâ™s âœI didnâ™t want her doing all that typingâ commentâ¦ perhaps that was more of a jokey remark? As far as I know, Olivia has never commented on working or not working. With that in mind, considering the âœauthorized biographyâ of the Beatles, in fact, considering the whole question of the Beatles, is a little difficult. One of the main concerns, one to which the book addresses itself but fails to deal with satisfactorily, is where the public life of the Beatles leaves off and where their private lives begin. Indeed, there is a prior question: does the Beatle â˜phenomenonâ™ entitles them to private lives at all? This biography implies a dual answer: on the one hand, the answer is no, because here is a biography, promising revealing fact after fact and insight af.

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