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List Price: $24.95 | | Publisher: John Blake
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Editorial Review:
An intimate portrait of the band that forever changed the face of music, by the author of Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison.
More than 35 years after their dramatic split, the Beatles continue to be the most famous and influential band in the world. Their unparalleled success has made them the gold standard against which all other bands continue to be measured. Now, for the first time, best-selling Beatle-ographer Geoffrey Giuliano has brought together exclusive interviews with the band’s inner circle, as well as rare tapes of the band’s private conversations, to create one of the most vivid portraits of the Fab Four ever published. Far from the fun-loving image so often presented, Revolver reveals the terrible pressures on the band, and how the four overcame poverty, personal demons, and tragedy to make the most enduring music of all time.
Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles Reviews:
Giuliano Not Impressive 
2008-01-25 - The product review provided me with enough information to know this book is not thoroughly researched. Most every Beatles fan knows it was Paul who played drums on Back in the USSR, not John. In fact, there is no record of John playing drums on any Beatles record. If this is typical of the "reseach" that was done, stay away.
sycophant wannabe
2007-06-03 - This guy is a sycophant wannabe! He has never gotten close enough to interview any of the Beatles or anyone remotely related to them. He fancies himself a spiritual being but doesn't mind exploiting the Beatles with lies and gossip for his own financial gain. He passes judgement on George Harrison's faith, all the while feeding off of George's life for Giuliano's god....money! What a hypocrit!
Not again...
2007-05-05 - How is this guy still able to find a publisher? It's sad to think someone like this can churn out the same old tired lines, stick a photo on the cover and become a 'best selling Beatles author.' If you want to read about The Beatles, buy Mark Lewisohn books, or better yet - The Beatles Anthology.
To quote Olivia Harrison from "The Guardian" newspaper dated October 10, 1992: "To rate himself the world's greatest rock and roll biographer (a laughable title in the first place) is nothing but delusion. He has only been in the vicinity of my husband for about 10 minutes and considers himself an expert.
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His life is a 'curse' to himself and perhaps his admitted 300 acid trips by the age of 19 has something to do with it. I'm sick of this guy"
Aren't we all?
Beckett and Lennon???
2007-02-06 - In this "book" you can read stories like the Beckett - Lennon interview (probably from the totally fictional website The hapeless dilettante) and then ask yourself; is John Blake a serious publishing house? Having also read Alistair Taylors "With the Beatles" also by J.Blake, the question feels accurate. In the latter you will discover breathtaking new "facts" like dope-smoking Beatles in 1963, Michelle performed live in -64, that is, if you bother to machete yourself through the incredible amount of spelling errors in the text (most significant Brain instead of Brian - Epstein).
Deserves a place in any serious Beatles library. 
2007-02-06 - There've been so many book on the Beatles - picturebooks, biographies, group portraits - that another seems overkill, but Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles promises something different: it comes from a long-time Beatles author/historian and gathers interviews with the group's inner circle and rare tapes of the band's private conversations to prove a unique insider's focus on the group. From adultery of Beatles members with each other's wives to stormy family encounters, Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles is intimacy like you've not seen elsewhere - and deserves a place in any serious Beatles library.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
