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Title: Lacks Credibility
Review: One or two errors in book are not a disaster, but this book has far too many. It's difficult to accept any of the narrative as being true, because of the many blatant fact errors pointed out by other reviewers (which do not have to be rehashed again in this review). The portion about Lennon and McCartney's youth, for example, seems to be made up out of whole cloth. Like the rest of the book, it lacks any basis upon which the reader feels assured that he or she is reading what really happened, rather than some fanciful assumptions that arose strictly from the author's own imagination. Peter Brown's "The Love You Make," for all its faults and gossipiness, is a much more enjoyable read because it at least has the credibility of being told by a semi-insider. Spitz's book strikes out all around, because it does not even have this perspective, at the least, to lend it some credibility.
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