Beatles Book:

		List Price: $25.00		Publisher: It Books Salesrank: 1536 Released: October 18, 2005
		Our Price: $16.13
		Used Price: $16.94
		Media: Paperback

Editorial Review:

A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics.

Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination.

Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves.

Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.

A Hard Day's Write, 3e: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song Reviews:
Beatle Book
2009-11-02 - Purchased this book for my son for Christmas. Having seen the Beatles twice during my teen years, I knew he would more than appreciate this. Can't wait for him to open it!

Beatles Music Lovers
2009-09-16 - This book is so awesome it list each and every Beatle song, who wrote it and what gave them the idea to write that song. Very Very interesting.

CRAZY CIRCUMSTANCE
2009-07-15 - FOR SOME BIZZAR REASON THE PURCHASE WAS HALTED AND MY CREDIT CARD WAS CREDITED. IF YOU CAN FIND THE REASON WHY FEEL FREE TO EMAIL IT TO ME!!!!

Outstanding Beatles Trivia
2009-07-14 - This is an excellent book on Beatle's songs that goes well with my other books on the Beatles, one of my favorite '60's group. It was shipped as promised, the condition was as promised and I wouldn't hesitate to do business with this website again. Thank you very much. Alan Barton.

what the hey
2009-07-14 - How the hell can I rate something that according to the amazon web page has yet to even ship? item was paid for on June 12,2009 and according to the web page delivery expected July 1 - 13 2009, and here on July 13 2009 still not received and according to the web site not even shipped yet!I'd say someone here has dropped the ball somewhere!