Reddit reviews The Beatles: An Illustrated Record

My two favorite books about the Beatles are Peter Brown's The Love You Make and Roy Carr and Tony Tyler's The Beatles: An Illustrated Record (sorry, no copy on Powells.com). Brown's book has a bit more detail, but the Carr/Tyler volume is surprisingly well-written and goes pretty deep, plus it has full-size reproductions of all the album sleeves and a wealth of additional pictorial material as well. Definitely worth checking out.

The Bob Spitz Beatles bio is extraordinarily well-researched and offers numerous background facts I've never seen elsewhere, but may be a bit too detailed for someone who hasn't read that much about the band before.

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