John, Paul, George & Ringo; The Definitive Illustrated Chronicle of the Beatles, 1960-1970

New York: Metro Books, 2008. First American Edition, First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Daily Mail (Photographs). The format is approximately 10.25 inches by 11.75 inches. 448 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some with color). Index. Originally published in England in 2007 as The Beatles: Then There Was Music. This is a large and heavy book and if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. Foreword by Robert Whitaker. Contents include Introduction, The Early Years, sections on 1963 through 1968, a section on 1969-1970 and After the Beatles. Discography. Tim Hill is the bestselling author of more than twenty books about popular culture and sport. John, Paul, George & Ringo is his fifth book about the world's most famous band. His first book about the band, The Beatles: Unseen Archives, has become a worldwide bestseller since its publication in 2000. He is currently working on a book charting the history of pop and rock music through the 1960s. Tim Hill had been given exclusive access to new archive material. Includes 900 photographs, over 300 pieces of rare memorabilia and media cuttings give a true flavour of the 1960's. John, Paul, George & Ringo minutely traces the meteoric rise of the Beatles from 1960 to 1970, with detailed timelines of their day-to-day activities, fascinating photographs (many exceedingly rare), penetrating biographies of everyone associated with the spread of Beatlemania, and contemporary excerpts from London s influential Daily Mail. This exhaustive record, which closely follows the four young lads as they rose from Liverpool obscurity to become universally acknowledged titans of pop music, is the most comprehensive account of the history of the Beatles ever published.