The beatles biography by hunter davies
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan Aldridge [Jacket design] (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in the UK by William Heinemann in September 1968. With 32 pages of monochrome photographs. Classic 1960s jacket design by Alan Aldridge. ***Very good in purple cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. There is a light vertical reading crease to the spine. Corners sharp. No tears to the cloth. The top edge and fore edge of the text block are discoloured and lightly foxed. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. No tears or creases to the pages. Slight offsetting to the endpapers but interior pages clean. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper with some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling. The dustwrapper has been corner price-clipped, but is otherwise complete, without any chips - just some light creasing at the extremities. There is a 2cm closed tear at the top of the spine with some associated creasing to the top of the back panel. Dustwrapper clean - just slightly browned with age. ***374 pages including a complete Discography and The Beatles Fi
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The Beatles: The Authorised Biography
Authorised biography of the Beatles by Hunter Davies
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by the British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career. Davies published revised editions of the book in 1978, 1982, 1985, 2002, 2009, and 2018.
Background
[edit]In 1966, Hunter Davies was working as the Atticus columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper and had written two books, one of which was the novel Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Moved by the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby", he visited Paul McCartney at the latter's house in St John's Wood, in September 1966, intending to make the song the focus of his newspaper column. At a subsequent meeting at the house, Davies hoped to persuade McCartney to write the theme song for the film adaptation of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Nothing came of this idea, but the pair began discussing the possibility of an official biography of the Beatles. Recalling their conversation in 2002, Davies said that there h
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