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Professional Reviews
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New York Times: "In short, the book, like all installments of the 'Anthology' project, is entertaining and, to a degree that depends on your previous grasp of the information, informative, but there is little here of major import that has not been told elsewhere.", Publishers Weekly: "As a whole the volume is big, beautiful and intimidating, somewhere between the Yellow Submarine and the Death Star.", Salon: "For me the real pleasure in reading the anthology came from the little moments that stirred the imagination: John and Paul in bowler hats, trying to hitchhike across France for John's 21st birthday in 1961; John and Paul circa 1967 in John's Rolls Royce--which had blacked-out windows, a microphone and an external loudspeaker--roaring through the streets of suburban London at 2 a.m., in pursuit of George in his Ferrari, broadcasting to the streets, 'It is foolish to resist! It is foolish to resist! Pull over!' And then there's the Beatledome, a fort the Beatles talked about building on the Greek island they were going to buy in the summer of 1967.", Washington Post: "What makes this oral history of the band gripping is not only the documentation of their spectacular rise and rancorous fall but the ample evidence that each Beatle was smart and self-aware (yes, Ringo too). Not that the anthology is filled with undisclosed secrets. The significant stories have all been told before; there are no stunning revelations here. But the insights are fascinating."
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