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List Price: $24.95 | | Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Editorial Review:
Every song written and recorded by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr. Features melody, lyrics and chords, a full British release discography and portrait photographs. 6-5/8 inch. x 10 inch..
The Concise Beatles Complete Reviews:
A very good starter book with caveats 
2005-07-10 - I can't agree entirely with other reviews here. Most of the songs I tried are in the correct key, though clearly some do vary. I don't mind however, because this is quite typical of any songbook. I've often tried to play along with my favorite songs to find the recording is a quarter- or half-step out of tune! Tape machines-- who needs 'em? Besides, often you need to change the key anyway to be able to sing the song...
I did find some of the chords are not quite correct either- the book will say Dm where it's actually a Dm6, things like that. This is also no big deal. Have you ever compared the "Real Book" to the real recordings? For the most part this book is a great way to get to know all the Beatles tunes and it's very portable.
I do have two main gripes though. First, the songs are almost but not quite in alphabetical order for some unknown reason. "Happiness is a Warm Gun," for example, is between "Every Little Thing" and "From me to You." "Golden Slumbers" is between "Fool on the Hill" and "For No One." And there are others. This is annoying when you're flipping through to find a tune.
Second and most importantly, if you plan on playing this book with any frequency, the pages WILL start falling out after a few months. If this is the case, I recommend pitching in the cash and getting a better quality book. That's what I'm doing here today as I write this review.
Smorgasbord of Beatle Songs 
2005-03-10 - For people interested in playing Beatle songs on guitar, this is a nice little book that is a half a step above a book for complete beginners and is not quite at the intermediate level.
The book offers a plethora of songs and I felt it was clear, direct and well written. I was also quite pleased with the selection of songs.
The Concise Beatles Complete 
2004-01-20 - Musically grossly innacurate. Keys are not just a little off, but way off from the original recordings. What was the point?
184 Beatles songs!
2003-11-23 - This book is one of those that shows the line of melody for the right hand and the chord. I know most of the chords, which means that they are simple. The book contains the basic melody but not more than that. It is not an easy-play book. Many of the songs have sharps and flats. I saw some songs with 5 flats. The songs have more than 1 verse. The songs with which I was familiar had all the verses, so it may be that all the verses for these songs are included. The notes and words are a little small for my taste, but they are not tiny. It's not a book for a complete beginner because of all the sharps and flats. When it says, "Every song written and recorded by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr", I think it means, while they were Beatles. Certainly it does not contain all the songs they wrote after the group broke up. I think this book is quite a bargain because of all the songs it contains.
Contents: A Day In The Life; A Hard Day's Night; Across The Universe; All I've Got To Do; All My Loving; All Together Now; All You Need Is Love; And I Love Her; And Your Bird Can Sing; Another Girl; Anytime At All; Ask Me Why; Baby You're A Rich Man; Baby's In Black; Back In The U.S.S.R.; Because; Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite; Birthday; Blackbird; Blue Jay Way; Can't Buy Me Love; Carry That Weight; Come Together; Cry Baby Cry; Day Tripper; Dear Prudence; Dig A Pony; Dig It; Do You Want To Know A Secret?; Doctor Robert; Don't Let Me Down; Don't Pass Me By; Drive My Car; Eight Days A Week; Eleanor Rigby; Every Little Thing; Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey; Fixing A Hole; For No One; For You Blue; From A Window; From Me To You; Get Back; Getting Better; Girl; Give Peace A Chance; Glass Onion; Golden Slumbers; Good Day Sunshine; Good Morning Good Morning; Good Night; Goodbye; Got To Get You Into My Life; Happiness Is A Warm Gun; Hello Little Girl; Hello, Goodbye; Help!; Helter Skelter; Her Majesty; Here Comes The Sun; Here, There And Everywhere; Hey Bulldog; Hey Jude; Hold Me Tight; Honey Pie; I Am The Walrus; I Call Your Name; I Don't Want To Spoil The Party; I Feel Fine; I Me Mine; I Need You; I Saw Her Standing There; I Should Have Known Better; I Wanna Be Your Man; I Want To Hold Your Hand; I Want To Tell You; I Want You (She's So Heavy); I Will; I'll Be Back; I'll Cry Instead; I'll Follow The Sun; I'll Get You; I'm A Loser; I'm Down; I'm Happy Just To Dance With You; I'm Looking Through You; I'm Only Sleeping; I'm So Tired; I've Got A Feeling; I've Just Seen A Face; If I Fell; If I Needed Someone; In My Life; It Won't Be Long; It's All Too Much; It's Only Love; Julia; Lady Madonna; Let It Be; Little Child; Long Long Long; Love Me Do; Love You To; Lovely Rita; Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds; Magical Mystery Tour; Martha My Dear; Maxwell's Silver Hammer; Mean Mr. Mustard; Michelle; Misery; Mother Nature's Son; No Reply; Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown); Not A Second Time; Nowhere Man; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; Octopus's Garden; Oh! Darling; Old Brown Shoe; One After 909; Only A Northern Song; P.S. I Love You; Paperback Writer; Penny Lane; Piggies; Please Please Me; Polythene Pam; Rain; Revolution; Rocky Raccoon; Run For Your Life; Savoy Truffle; Sexy Sadie; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; She Came In Through The Bathroom Window; She Loves You; She Said She Said; She's A Woman; She's Leaving Home; Something; Strawberry Fields Forever; Sun King; Taxman; Tell Me What You See; Tell Me Why; Thank You Girl; The Ballad Of John And Yoko; The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill; The End; The Fool On The Hill; The Inner Light; The Long And Winding Road; The Night Before; The Word; There's A Place; Things We Said Today; Think For Yourself; This Boy (Ringo's Theme); Ticket To Ride; Tomorrow Never Knows; Two Of Us; Wait; We Can Work It Out; What Goes On; What You're Doing; When I Get Home; When I'm Sixty-Four; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Why Don't We Do It In The Road; Wild Honey Pie; With A Little Help From My Friends; Within You Without You; Yellow Submarine; Yer Blues; Yes It Is; Yesterday; You Can't Do That; You Like Me Too Much; You Never Give Me Your Money; You Won't See Me; You're Going To Lose That Girl; You've Got To Hide Your Love Away; Your Mother Should Know;
A Great book 
2003-11-04 - I first had it this book in 9th grade and couldn't stop playing. The chords are easy and though it is not exactly as the recordings go, it works fine(and sometimes even better). Recommended especially for beginners. For those who love to play on classic/spanish guitar - this is the best choice. The lyrics are easy to read and the notes are well balanced with the chords to provide an all together friendly book.
