The world's leading authority on the Beatles - and author of the bestselling Beatles Recording Sessions - has completed the riveting first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the iconic band that changed the face of pop music. TUNE IN uncovers the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo as never before.
Their enduring fame and legendary exploits have led to countless biographies of the Beatles, but now we have the ultimate portrait. Tune In is the first book in a genre-defining trilogy, telling the story of the Beatles from before their beginning up to the final night of 1962, with success within their grasp and on the cusp of a whole new kind of celebrity.
This is the lesser-known Beatles story - the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg - and in many respects the most absorbing, extraordinary and incredible period of all. Here is the warts and all story of their family backgrounds, childhoods, and their infatuation with American music. As Tune In chronicles in amazing nuance, everything comes together in these years and in this one book: the Beatles' talent, charisma, looks, sex appeal, personalities, honesty, humor, attitude - and the Lennon-McCartney partnership.
Forget what you've read or know about the Beatles, tune in, and start anew.
MARK LEWISOHN is the acknowledged world authority on the Beatles. His books include the bestselling and influential Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and Complete Beatles Chronicle. He has been a consultant and researcher on all aspects - TV, DVDs, CDs and book - of the Beatles own Anthology and has been involved in numerous additional projects for them. Married with two children, he lives in England.
"Of all the chroniclers who have studied the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo, Mark Lewisohn stands supreme. His dedication in getting all the true facts, coupled with a style of writing that is most readable, leaves him with no rival. Time and again he has proven that he knows far more about what we did than any of us." -George Martin