Lewisohn is the Beatles expert, bar none. This book incorporates much of the detail from two of his other exhaustive works, including The Beatles Complete Recording Sessions. If your interest is largely in anecdote rather than detail, then you should look elsewhere, and there is an entire library of work out there.

This is a day-by-day account of The Beatles' career, including their recording sessions. It is NOT a Revolution In The Head (it is more factual, and does not address the music in and of itself). But if you want a diary of The Beatles' lives, then there is no better place - in fact, really, no other place - to go, than here. ( )

A very useful reference book for Beatle-philes. ( )