Beatles Biography by Mark Lewisohn (6th edition)- plus Lewisohn news. *

By the way, are there any color photos of the Beatles in Hamburg (1960-1962)?

 

May we have a peek? ...

 

So just milling about amongst a crowd of fellow patrons? Or in a close-up in a corner? Something along those lines?

 

Found it! Detective work pays off!:

 

He said it will be TALLER!

 

If Lewisohn gets an interview with Jane Asher it could be big.
If she were to grant it I wonder why now? Would she be fulfilling something personal or just to set history correct?

 

Clearly they were scrambling in those early days, playing guitars without strings. Yet somehow prevailing!

 

I have a feeling that she won't do an interview while McCartney is still alive

 

Hopefully for the rest of us....she (Jane) has been keeping a memoir of sorts all this time.

 

Thanks for these. I learned that he may cover up to 1974, but not after.

 

And I have a feeling that she won't do an interview while McCartney is dead.

In other words, I don't think she will ever grant an interview.

 

I wonder how the next volume will cover the band's recording sessions. I know ML has said he'd basically rewrite the Recording Sessions book and put it in the middle of the biography, but there's far too much to cover, isn't there? Along with all the other happenings. The initial years only had three or four sessions, so he could get away with giving them their own rundowns and subheadings. I wonder how he'll fit in hundreds of days worth?

 

I've been thinking about it recently. The thing is that if Mark repeats the level of deep minutia with every aspect of the Beatles lives like he did in the volume, he might cover every recording session in detail and their live shows as well. Next volume will certainly cover Beatlemania when the band spent most of their nights playing, and even though they probably didn't altered their setlist too much like in their Hamburg/Cavern days, it will still be a lot to cover in a single book, even in the Extended Edition.
I do wonder if three volumes will be enough to cover everything, even though he's been thinking about making it four volumes, the last one is intended to cover the period between Paul leaving the band and the dissolution of their partnership.
In my mind, I think a better approach would've been to cover every two to three years per volume, and make it something like six books, something like this:

• Vol. 1: The Early Years (1800s-1962)
• Vol. 2: 1963-1964
• Vol. 3: 1965-1966
• Vol. 4: 1967-1968
• Vol. 5: 1969-1970 (Until the release of Let It Be)
  
• Vol. 6: The Final Years (1970-1974)

 

If he starts in the 1800's...we, the living, are completely screwed.

 

Big news: he already did

 

Oh! I guess no one's screwed then.

 

Mark's just done another interview for something called "Let it be Beatles", they're streaming it in four parts before releasing the whole thing as a podcast. First part has already gone out, has anybody got a link to a recording?

Was intrigued that he's had access to Patti's diaries, does this mean he'll be able to pin down the date of the dentist experience? I've always wondered what the first thing The Beatles did after that happened, it can take days to recover from that kind of thing and they rarely had a day off at that point. I'd always assumed it was towards the completion of "Help!", shortly before that MBE "And Mr Ed!" interview.

 

Try here,
Let It Be Beatles
If not maybe look up their Facebook page?

 

According to their Twitter page, "there's a three week delay until the most current episode is available" online, so we'll have to wait until October 15 in order to listen to the first part, and then three more weeks to listen to the other three. Here's where they post their new episodes once they become available: Let It Be Beatles.

 

i love these threads.

i think we have the date of the dentist don't we?...it's in one of those books........like spring of '65......maybe it was a mojo article or something....i think we have the month anyway........

 

Goldman said it was 1964, which is almost certainly wrong. Hunter Davies had dated it to 1965 in the official biography and Lewisohn himself was no more specific when finding the address of the Dentist's home for "The Beatles London", Peter Brown said it was during the making of "Help!". Miles has it down as "around" 27th March 1965 but I'm not sure what he bases that date on. Keith Badman went for April 1965. Patti, in her book, would only say "one evening sometime in 1965" which may indicate that she wasn't keeping a diary that year or only noting down more formal engagements. George in "Anthology" said it was "between albums and tours", so in his mind they weren't particularly busy at the time which perhaps points more towards late May/early June? Paddy, Klaus and Gibson, who are a part of this story, released their first single in July.

I think it would have to be after the Beatles returned from the Bahamas on 11th March 1965, because John Riley (the Dentist) apparently met up with them out there and logically the dinner party would have occurred after that. And it would obviously be before the '65 American tour in August 65 where they took it for a 2nd time with Neil, Ringo, Peter Fonda and the Byrds, so "Spring 1965" would be the safest and most accurate date to go with based on what we know but hopefully Mark can narrow it down further. Patti mentions that John had already read about LSD in "Playboy" so I'm sure Mark will be looking into that.

 

Yes, with Mark spending all his time supposedly writing his next book, he certainly may need to look at Playboy for supplemental "research"....

 

I think the book that came out recently on the year 1966 goes into detail about the dental experience, the author's name escapes me tho

 

Jon Savage?