The Beatles - Off the Record

This is the most comprehensive oral history of The Beatles ever published - an "as it happened" story of the greatest pop group of them all. The revealing portrait features a wealth of quotes from the Sixties by John, Paul, George, and Ringo themselves and a host of of others who were close to the group during the heady days of Beatlemania and beyond, including their families, fellow musicians, Brian Epstein, George Martin, and dozens more. As Hunter Davies, The Beatles official biographer, states in his foreword, "...compared with some of The Beatles' later selective and polished or faulty and fading memories, this is much nearer the truth. Well, as it appeared to be, at the time..."