The Beatles by Geoffrey Stokes torrent

It is fifty-five years since the Fab Four first hit number 1 in the pop charts with
'Please Please Me' and left Liverpool to make pop music history.
Today the Beatles continue to be as big as ever as new generations around the globe
discover the Beatles' magic that swept the world the first time round.
In this lavishly illustrated volume Geoffrey Stokes draws together the story from those who lived through the Beatle years, from Beatlemania to break-up. It is rich in detail, using contemporary sources and retrospective analysis that is not afraid of deviating from the legend.
The story of the Beatles, from the Merseybeat explosion that shook the world, does not tire in the felling, as this book clearly demonstrates, for the Beatle phenomenon was part of the sixties revolution that is still reverberating
today - Far more than four Mop Tops from Merseyside made good, the Beatles were
figureheads of a social movement that shaped contemporary culture as we know it