title: Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957-1965
author:  John C. Winn 
description: JOHN C. WINN was born one year after the Beatles disbanded. He has dedicated most of his life to collecting, studying, and enjoying their music. His second volume, <i>That Magic Feeling: The Beatles&#8217; Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966&#8211;1970</i>, is forthcoming from Three Rivers Press.
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  **Also by John C. Winn**
  
  
  **_Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’  
  Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957–1965_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **To the memory of my grandfathers,  
  Sterling Winn and William Delorey**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  [**ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_ack_r1.htm)
  
  
  [**PREFACE**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_prf_r1.htm)  
    
    
  
  
  [**1966: Take This, Brother**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_c01_r1.htm)
  
  
  [**1967: A Little Bit Older**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_c02_r1.htm)
  
  
  [**1968: You Become Naked**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_c03_r1.htm)
  
  
  [**1969: Financial Imbalance**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_c04_r1.htm)
  
  
  [**1970: Will You Forgive Me?**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_c05_r1.htm)  
    
    
  
  
  **APPENDIX A:**[  
   **Master Newsreel List for the Years
  1966–1970**](Winn_9780307452405_epub_app1_r1.htm)
  
  
  **APPENDIX B:**[  
   **John Lennon’s Home Tapes 1966–1970**]