I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

It def bears reading start to finish imo

The thing that is impressive is it immerses you in their individual upbringings so well that I caught myself wondering IF they would meet, not when lol

its exhaustively long but giving their bios room to breathe is such a gift in terms of learning new info when they’ve seemingly already been done to death

I don't know why I bother asking any more but did Lewisohn ever give a clue as to when volume 2 is coming out? 2054?

2541, iirc

;_;

XP Definitely not this year but possibly next year was the last i heard.

When he’s 64

tbf, he’s focusing his time and energy on interviewing as many sources as possible — for this and future volumes — as a number of potential first-hand sources passed away just prior to, and during, the writing of Tune In (Neil Aspinall and Geoff Emerick, to name two).

xpost - I get the joke, but considering he’ll turn 63 in a couple months, I’d be happy with that deadline

I know! I couldn’t resist after piscesx said next year.

I think the last interview I heard he said “definitely not 2021 or 2022, possibly 2023 but don’t hold your breath”

jfc

But it might have been “def not 2020 or 2021, maybe 22 etc”

Time keeps on slippin slippin slippin etc

Comprehensive answer;

https://www.marklewisohn.net/volume-2/

;_;

volume 2 is probably just 63-64

He's going to skip straight to "Spies Like Us".

Working my way through the reviews on Amazon:

https://i.imgur.com/T9viUSt.png

The Beatles did smoke a lot, it's for authenticity.

I love how the working title of abbey road was Everest for the cigarette brand

Volume 2 will go up to ‘66 if memory serves. I was thinking Candlestick Park (August ‘66) would be an unbeatable ending for the ‘second act’.

Yeah, Lewisohn originally said volume 2 would include '66, but given the unbelievable amount of detail in volume 1 -- a period for the Beatles with relatively minuscule documentation in terms of newspaper stories and such -- I can see volume 2 only going as far as '64 or maybe '65. He has so much more to work with, and sift through, post-'62 in terms of available materials. And that's in addition to the interviews he's conducting; there's a lot more people involved with the Beatles after '62.

Alma Warren for a kick-off

He’s said it would be 3 volumes in total, so difficult to see how he could cram 65-70 in one volume based on how he approached their early career.

Or even 66-70.

That's where I am, if he stops at '64 or '65, that would be an absolute ton for volume 3.

volume 2 does come w a wheelbarrow so

iirc volume 3 will come with a lectern to support the weight

He’s said it would be 3 volumes in total, so difficult to see how he could cram 65-70 in one volume based on how he approached their early career.

― Dan Worsley, Friday, April 23, 2021 9:05 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the twist is that he views the Beatles as having ceased to exist in 1966 due to Paul’s death, which takes up the majority of Vol 3.

LOL

He initially projected it at 3 volumes & he hasn’t changed his tune yet but there was an interview somewhere where he floated the possibility that it would end up being 4 volumes to the end of the band... and speculated about a post-breakup volume also

Peter Doggett's You Never Give Me Your Money is a compact exploration of their lives after the split, that conveys a lot of the emotional ties and barriers between the members post-1970. You have to be willing to allow him to refer to Ringo as "Starkey" throughout, however.

When I worked in the newsroom of the British Library, Mark Lewisohn was in there all the time, ordering copies of the Bootle News & Journal from March 1963 or whatever.

You Never Give Me Your Money is great - but also kind of a bummer.

Yes, exactly.

There's a wee sub-genre of respectable books about the post-1970 years

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41NSZ8YTH5L._SX309_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Kind of ultimately depressing to read about and yet since we already knew something was up might as well get the unvarnished truth.

Who's that on the cover, Bud Cort?

:D

Lol

*imagegoogle*

lol

This is a bootleg, right?

https://codarecords.co.uk/collections/beatles-the-collection/products/beatles-in-the-studio-in-concert-1962-1966-4-album-collection-on-10-inch-vinyl-148-page-book?variant=39458843033755

It's because the copyright has lapsed. They still have to pay publishing charges though.

Something like that, anyway

Track 1 - Original Version Ringo Starr on Drums,

Ringo Starr 1.0!

what a weird hodgepodge of stuff. most of that is, I'm quite certain, already available. I wish there's be a really comprehensive set of lapsed copyright releases that make sense and don't make a jumble of their contents.

https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-beatles-get-back-peter-jackson-disney-six-hour-documentary-three-day-thanksgiving-debut-1234777028/

Peter Jackson’s ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Six-Hour (!) Doc Set For Three-Day Thanksgiving Debut On Disney+

Get Back will also be released as a .mp4 on torrent sites on the day after Thanksgiving, i'll be catching it there

Three-Day Thanksgiving Debut On Disney+

Naaa, na na nanana naa,
Nanana naa,
FUCK OFF.

― mike t-diva, Sunday, December 5, 2010 1:10 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Happy birthday Ringo! 81 today.

That mono box set they released in 2009 is possibly the single most prized release I have in my entire record collection. Not for monetary value, just for having nearly everything they did, in the right mixes and probably the best sound quality I can hope for without breaking the bank. Add the stereo-only stuff like Abbey Road, my own version of Get Back spliced together from the best official releases, and "The Ballad of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe" single, and that pretty much covers every song they released before they split.

Not only “without breaking the bank” — even the nerds on the Hoffman forum say there’s no point in seeking out original pressings if you have these.

If they did a stereo box with the same attention to detail, SQ, & pressing quality, I’d be on it in a heartbeat— never mind that I DO NOT NEED 2 copies of their entire discography FFS.

the 09 mono box is so fucking expensive now