The story as told by the group themselves is collected in a misnamed, door-stopping oral history called Anthology in terms of prose style, the best all-purpose biography has long been Philip Norman's Shout!, first published in 1981. The books written about the Beatles cover every aspect of their story – and they keep coming, from unwieldy works of culture studies, to the drab memoirs of fans, aides and hangers-on. It's nothing important."īut it was, and still is – so much so that they are now surely the most analysed musicians in history. "People talk about it as if it was the end of the world," he said. When they went their separate ways at the end of the 1960s, John Lennon had stern words for anyone who thought their demise was tragic, or even significant. Paul McCartney still talks of them as "a good little band". The Beatles themselves, in order to stay halfway sane, always denied that anything out-of-the-ordinary had gone on.
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