The Beatles: 365 Days

by Simon Wells

Book Overview

Every aspect of the evolution of The Beatles from mop tops to legends is discussed in this book, including their personal lives, performances, press conferences, recording sessions, public appearances, photo sessions, filmmaking, and more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810959119
• ISBN13: 9780810959118
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 9.6" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Exquisite!

This book is an absolute treasure and worth every penny of the steep price I payed for it.The pictures are large and extremely high quality and most of them are in vivid color.Another wonderful thing is the fact that they are in chronological order,almost day by day from the end of 1962 to 1970.This is perfect for students of the Beatles because it gives an accurate visual history of the band to suppliment all of the written histories.This leads me to another important point.Anyone with eyes knows that not only is the music great but The Fab Four were indeed VERY nice to look at!And I don't think you have to be a woman,as I most certainly am,to notice that!This book is alot of fun.Because of the date order you see that Paul is wearing the same shirt almost two days in a row on their 1966 American tour!Wonder what happened?! Didn't Neil get to the local cleaners?No clean shirts left?I bet Paul was less than thrilled.To see their clothing styles change every 6 months or so is also interesting.The pictures of the concerts are fantastic especially the color ones.Some of them are large closeups.It also includes some of Bob Whiticker's beautiful photos.He took some of the best pictures of the Fabs and I don't mean the silly Butcher shots.This book should be in every Beatlemaniac's collection.

Comprehensive and attractive

When I saw this book my first thought was, "Not another Beatles title!". But I am pleasantly surprised with the content. Simon Wells' "Beatles 365 Days" is a glorious illustrated chronology that charts the magical history of the Beatles' decade. Filled with a tremendous array of photographs and coupled with insightful and intelligent captions, this book takes you back to the glory days of the fab four. What I like about it more than anything, is the fact you can pick it up at any time and delve through the group's remarkable history. Wells' writing is intelligent and witty, while carefully placed sound-bites offer cogent validations to the images. In all in all, an excellent book.

Brilliant!

A brick of a book with so much to enjoy. As a Beatle nut I liked that (very nearly) all photos are of oversized postcard size, meaning it is possible to see more detail than is usual in Beatles books. This, plus the chronological ordering of the photos allowed me to narrow down the date when Paul refitted and reversed the control panel on his Hofner. The pictures give a visual to stories we already know. We see a blurred John rushing for the train to Bangor in Euston station, followed by a distressed Cynthia who missed the train, followed by the shattered and distraught Beatles when the news of Brian's death came through. The vast majority of the photos I have never seen before (and I have around 20 Beatles books), so this is a welcome addition. I have become cynical about new Beatles issues, but this one is a must, even for those with just a casual interest in the Beatles!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

With over 700 books on the Beatles published, you'd think that every photo of the group had been used. Not so, according to Simon Wells' "Beatles 365 Days". Inside you'll find an amazing aray of shots that spans the whole history of the group. I particularly liked the "Middle Years" photos, most of which seem to be taken by Beatle snapper supreme, Robert Whitaker. The text is excellent, although I would have liked to know more of what's going on, but this is a minor gripe. "Beatles 365 Days" is a tasty addition to my ever growing shelf of Beatles books.

Gorgeous presentation

This book is, like the boxed Lennon book with pull-outs and transparancies, one more of a strange pattern of Beatles books that is focused less on content than on presentation and quality. There is very little in this book that die-hard Beatles fans don't already know, and there is no necessary reason for this book's existence, but the presentation of the material is so exquisite, who cares. This is a first rate coffee table book whose pages and cover I like to tenderly stroke, as strange as that sounds. The strange rectangular format is extremely striking and many of the photographs, and the way in which they have been reproduced, make the boys look magnificent, and you know that can't be bad.