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A review by jwells
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
This big brick of a book is strong on the early days. Loved the details on the Beatles before they were the Beatles. It's a lot: it's about 300 pages before we even meet Ringo. lol. I dig reading about the scrappy Liverpool and Hamburg years though, lay it on me.
I felt like George got short changed; it seems that hardly any Beatles writer respects George, sadly. Spitz also struck me as a bit of a Yoko hater. I thought we'd all moved past that, but maybe not, because here she is presented as manipulating John and aiming to break up the band. Kind of a tired old story. No indication here that she loved John, or that he loved her. Dude, really?
I felt like George got short changed; it seems that hardly any Beatles writer respects George, sadly. Spitz also struck me as a bit of a Yoko hater. I thought we'd all moved past that, but maybe not, because here she is presented as manipulating John and aiming to break up the band. Kind of a tired old story. No indication here that she loved John, or that he loved her. Dude, really?