The Complete Beatles Songs: The Stories Behind Every Track Written by the Fab Four – A Definitive Illustrated Guide to Their Lyrics and Influences

Interesting book with a lot of facts and great pictures. If you're a Beatles fan I highly recommend this one

This is a great book about the Beatles songs 🎵 their background and the lyrics to them. I'd forgotten about a lot of how those songs 🎵 go. As I said this is a great book.My favorites are Drive My Car I Want To Hold Your Hand I Saw Her Standing There Please Please Me Norwegian Wood The Night Before I Should Have Known Better Yellow Submarine Nowhere Man Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds With A Little Help From My Friends All My Loving From Me To You You Won't See Me I'll Follow The Sun Here Comes The Sun She Loves You Maxwells Silver Hammer and many others .You should get this.

Perfect gift for fans that need to know ALL about the Beatles. Very informative.

I like the way it was organized, by album. Everybody has a favorite album and you can go to that section for very interesting tidbits of info that will make even the biggest Beatle expect say "wow". There are even pictures I haven't seen before (and I thought I'd seen them all). I got it in the hard cover version which is nice. I plan on reading it often and the Paperback wears down after a while. For each song they give the lyrics, nice pictures during the recoding, and a brief, sometimes longer info regarding how the song came about. Once in awhile you purchase something that makes you say "nice"! Why didn't I buy this before?

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my father-in-law, so the book is no longer in my possession...but I wish it was! As a Beatles fan myself, I came very close to pulling off the wrapping paper and keeping this for myself. Before wrapping it up, I flipped through the book and read the stories behind some of my absolute favorite songs by The Beatles. For example, did you know that "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence? Steve Turner's book is full of these interesting little nuggets. This isn't the type of book you're going to sit down and read for hours, but it makes for a wonderful coffee table book that you can pick up and read bits of from time to time. If you're looking to buy a gift for a Beatles fan, look no further.

A beautiful, súper-complete book. The seller was very kind to send it ahead of the scheduled dates… thank you very much! It arrived exactly on time and has been thoroughly enjoyed!

Interestingly written, all the Beatles lyrics, and a well produced book. Solidly printed, fun to look through.

Really nice book ; a little hard to read due to its style ; but cool to learn about the history behind the music . defiantly a must have for a Beatles fan .

Un ouvrage complet sur toutes les chansons des Fab Four. Tout y est expliqué, exploré, élucidé: la genèse des chansons et le sens des paroles qui, pour certaines, pourraient paraître sibyllines. Excellent. je recommande vivement.

Fantastic buy. The stories behind the songs added to the value of the song......even after so long. And a catalogue of lyrics. Truly a great purchase.

I love this book, great insights easy to read.

A lavishly illustrated coffee table book, featuring every self-penned Beatle lyric in big type accompanied by background information, some speculative ( "mays", "coulds" "probablys" abound ),some based on sold fact. Of "Sun King" we are helpfully reminded that Louis XIV of France was called the Sun King, and told that Nancy Mitford had recently published a book about him ( actually, three years earlier ) "and John may have come across it". Yes he may. Or may not. Turner then adds, perhaps in desperation, that "It may also have been a jokey reference to George's song "Here Comes the Sun" Indeed. It may...who knows ? Who cares ? It's only a northern song, after all. Of course there is more to the book than vast amounts of guesswork and trivia. For example, we are told that "She Loves You" was written in The Imperial Hotel, Jesmond and not at The Royal Turk's Head in Newcastle as "had previously been thought". How do we know ? Well, in 1992 it was reported that "local man Bernard Armstrong had drunk with them at the hotel and could remember unloading equipment with them from their van" Good to get that cleared up ! If you need to know how many people named Mustard are on the electoral roll, or that after appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, the group spent four additional nights at the Deauville Hotel on Collins Avenue, then this is the book for you.

Bought as a Christmas present for my teenage son who lives music and has collected all Beatles albums. Hes already read up around different albums/tracks but he lived this. Nicely presented. Good quality.