The metaphor is unavoidable: Mark Lewisohn is the Beatles of Beatles biographers. Nobody else who has ever waded into this territory—telling the story of the greatest saga in the history of popular ...
During my recent interview with author Mark Lewisohn about his monumental new biography of the Beatles, “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years,” he very briefly let slip a comment that might qualify ...
Although the first installment of Mark Lewisohn's projected three-volume Beatles biography is shorter (and more upbeat) than Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," ...
essential reading, not just for Beatles fans specifically but for anyone with a serious interest in the history of popular music, is the way Lewisohn tells the story. He takes nothing for granted here ...
Mark Lewisohn in Altoona yesterday signs a copy of his latest book on the Beatles, the first of a projected three volume ultimate biography. ALTOONA -- On Saturday morning, over Danish pastries, ...
Ahead of his appearance at Dublin's Olympia Theatre this Saturday, Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn tells John Byrne about falling for the Fab Four and what fans can expect from the show that gets ...
Imagine a Beatles biography that combines the rigorous research of a World War II history tome with the continuously unfurling dramatic plot of a Game Of Thrones-style epic. Mark Lewisohn had this ...
Mark Lewisohn is gazing down the long and winding road, trying to remember where it all began. ‘When you see the careers officer at school, he doesn’t say, “I think you could be a Beatles historian!” ...
But in Tune In, the first volume of Mark Lewisohn’s monumental Beatles trilogy, the old Liverpool –where in the Fifties their home-made music flickered, caught and then spread in a great conflagration ...
"I declare that the Beatles are mutants," the LSD evangelist Timothy Leary once said: "prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a ...