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Title: BELOW AVERAGE -- AND AN INCOMPLETE PICTURE OF THE GREATEST BAND
Review: There are literally HUNDREDS of books about the Beatles, and over 100 of them are putative "definitive biographies" of the band. Yawn...snooze...you've read one, you've read 'em all. And there's holes everywhere in every one of them. Sorry, but the REAL definitive biography will be Mark Lewisohn's massive 3-volume tome, FAB -- due in the next few years. Wait for that one; it'll be well worth it.In the meantime, there are lots of great books out there about the Beatles that are NOT biographies. There's MAGIC CIRCLES by Devin McKinney, THE BEATLES: RECORDING SESSIONS by Mark Lewisohn, and TURN ME ON, DEAD MAN: The Beatles and the "Paul-Is-Dead" Hoax by Andru J. Reeve (my favorite book from last year; a comprehensive, enlightening and fun account of the infamous Paul McCartney death rumor of 1969 - which, by the way, is barely mentioned in Spitz's book). Pick up all three of these INSTEAD of this inferior "work".
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