To capture the sense of urgency about what he’s taken on, he invoked a song title, and not of one of the more than 200 songs in the Beatles’ oeuvre but that of one of their biggest heroes: “It’s now or never.” Initially, they were part of a world in which they were reacting to things around them, and when we get to volumes two and three, they’re very much shaping what’s going on around them.” “It’s a biography with the Beatles at the center and everything else that’s happening around them. “I call this a biographical history,” said Lewisohn of the book, published Oct. Lewisohn, in fact, initially conceived of his grand-sweep exploration of the Beatles as a six-volume project - approaching Martin Gilbert’s celebrated eight-volume Winston Churchill biography - but his publisher convinced him that it would be too much of an uphill battle to market. “But it’s all true and therefore the best story of all.” It multiple times, there’s so much in it.Īnd have patience for the next book, because I'm working on it.“It’s a story so fantastic you’d think it’s all been made up,” he said on a recent trip to Los Angeles from his home base near London. It has 1700 pages but you can take it one chapter at a time just like any other book. (the so-called ‘extended special edition’) that still a lot of people don’t know about. In the meantime, if you need another fix of the Beatles’ incredible story, I recommend the fullest hit of Tune In That I’m dragging my feet or twiddling my thumbs (or both at the same time, which would be impressive), please take it kindly from me that you may not understand what’s required. But it’s pointless to predict it so far out. When I do, it will be announced and you won’t miss it. Yes-yes-yes, OK – but Mark, when’s volume 2 coming out? Thank you.īelieve me, I’m also keen to get it out, so people can continue to devour this most fantastic of true histories,Īnd so that I’ll be a step closer to completing a commitment that monopolises my life.īut projects like this take the time they need the work must progress at its own correct speed. I appreciate that people hungrily want my next book NOW. Tune Intook ten years to research/write before it came out in 2013.

Beatles all these years volume 2