Lewisohn tells us the project has not been authorized or in any way controlled by the surviving Beatles, the deceased Beatles’ estates, or the group’s joint company, Apple Corps. At around a thousand pages, the book both looks and weighs important, and the hefty mass-market version is dwarfed by the “Extended Special Edition”-two equally thick volumes in a box, with nearly twice the page count and many more photographs, incorporating quantities of ancillary research that must have been removed from the mass version with a shovel. Close to a decade in preparation, its publication twice delayed, Tune In (Crown Archetype 932 pp.) is the first installment of a three-volume Beatles biography with the corporate title All These Years. His work on the Recording Sessions book alone-for which he listened to every piece of Beatles tape in their record company’s vault-gives him a depth of archival insight undreamt of by other fans or historians.Īnd his magnum opus is finally upon us.
He’s written liner notes for numerous Beatles reissues, and was intimately involved in the 1994-95 Anthology project. Among his works of Fab Four scholarship-all venerated for their precision, depth, and integrity-are The Beatles Live! (1986) The Beatles Recording Sessions (1988) The Complete Beatles Chronicle (1992) and The Beatles’ London (1994). Today, the mustache beneath Mark Lewisohn’s nose is all his own.
Pepper “while trying not to dislodge the cardboard mustache clenched under his nose,” he was last seen as “a serious young man of twenty-two who holds the title ‘Beatle Brain of Britain,’ so labyrinthine is his knowledge of their music and history.”īut within a decade of Norman’s book, the “serious young man” had achieved broad renown as the acknowledged world authority on All Things Beatle. First glimpsed as an eight-year-old in the summer of 1967, dancing in the back yard to Sgt. Reading Philip Norman’s Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation in 1982, I was slightly disoriented, yet nonetheless taken, by its references to a British youth and Beatles fan named Mark Lewisohn-disoriented because I, like most Americans, hadn’t heard of him.
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