Reddit reviews The John Lennon Letters

Exactly!! You should read the John Lennon Letters, it shows a lot of "other" John, a broken, hopeless romantic who has a lot on his mind.

I'd steer away from Norman.

Regardless of age, it's hard to beat Miles' biography of Paul - because we all know it's authorised.

https://www.amazon.com/Paul-McCartney-Many-Years-Now/dp/0805052496

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As for George there was a thread today: https://www.reddit.com/r/georgeharrison/comments/cjy3hf/best_biographies/

You might also take a look at this: https://www.amazon.com/George-Harrison-Soul-Man-Vol-ebook/dp/B07N11T8W9/ and volume 2, but this one I haven't read.

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\> What are the best books on them as a band

I think that mean's Hunter Davies original biography: https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Updated-Hunter-Davies/dp/0393338746

And it has to mean the Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Anthology/dp/0811826848

And it definitely has to mean Tune In: https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-These-Years-Extended-Special/dp/1408704781

Worth a look:

https://www.amazon.com/As-Time-Goes-Derek-Taylor/dp/0706700279

https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Mystery-Tours-Life-Beatles/dp/0312330448

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Me-Do-Beatles-Progress/dp/0140022783

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For John, I really enjoyed the 'Letters' book that Hunter edited - but I prefer first person material.

https://www.amazon.com/John-Lennon-Letters/dp/0316200808/

Also, you might look at https://www.johnlennonseries.com/ I've heard her speak and she knows her stuff - but its a long road she is hoeing.

https://www.amazon.com/Lennon-Remembers-Jann-S-Wenner/dp/185984376X

https://www.amazon.com/Daddy-Come-Home-Lennon-Father/dp/0207169969

This is a great movie about the man behind the Granny glasses. It has home videos. Interviews with Cynthia, Yoko, Julian, Sean, and many others. This is a great movie about John. Any book on amazon rated highly should be good.LINK http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-John-Lennon-Deluxe-Edition/dp/B000AYELY2/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1348931424&sr=8-8&keywords=john+lennon Never heard of this, but if you want something really raw get this. Sounds amazing by the way. I'll have to get it some day. LINKhttp://www.amazon.com/The-John-Lennon-Letters/dp/0316200808/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1348931424&sr=8-10&keywords=john+lennon

I don't think I've ever seen a documentary about Paul. But I found this. It has music videos, live performances, narration by Paul, interviews. Read the description on amazon for more details. This is something that I would love to get. LINK http://www.amazon.com/The-McCartney-Years-Paul/dp/B000VRJ37I/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1348931817&sr=8-26&keywords=paul+mccartney
The top 3 on an amazon search of Paul Mccartney books look decent if you want to read about Paul.
LINKhttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_iac_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=paul+mccartney+books&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apaul+mccartney+books

For George I would highly recommend George Harrison: Living In The Material World. I have watched most of it, and it is amazing. I still need to get a copy of it myself. LINKhttp://www.amazon.com/George-Harrison-Living-Material-World/dp/B007JWKLMO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348932351&sr=8-1&keywords=george+harrison
On amazon there are a few books that look good. I'll leave you to decide on one. LINKhttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=george+harrison+book&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ageorge+harrison+book

Ringo doesn't have a lot out there to read or watch about him but I Found some good stuff. This looks really cool and I would love to get one for myself. LINKhttp://www.amazon.com/Postcards-Boys-Ringo-Starr/dp/B000A176RO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348932649&sr=8-1&keywords=ringo+starr+book
You'll have to research more to find a good biography on Ringo.

There you go. I hope this helps a lot. I know I'll be picking this stuff up a some point.

People don't like her music, and that's fair, though I would defend it on the basis that it was completely in keeping with the Fluxus art movement she was a part of. She was never trying to make pop music. As some examples of Fluxus "music", see John Cage's "Water Walk", Dick Higgins' "Danger Music No. 17", Al Hansen's "The Futuristic Chattanooga Choo Choo in the Mongolian Desert", and Ken Friedman's "Melon Melody".

She kind of/sort of introduced John to heroin, though she had only done it once before herself. Someone gave it to her at a party, and around the time they got together, a bunch of the Beatles' friends were doing it. Paul himself had done it in 1967. John had started reading about it, and Yoko mentioned she'd done it once before. John asked her what she thought of it, and she said it wasn't that bad. So John arranged for them to snort some. It was his first time, her second, and they got hooked on it for about two years.

She wasn't exactly a good stepmother to Julian, though that was much to do with the circumstances of she and John living in the U.S. and Julian living with his mother in the U.K. She deserves some of the blame, because she didn't exactly encourage the relationship between John and Julian, though if you read the letters reproduced in the book The John Lennon Letters, John himself wrote that this was much to do with Cynthia keeping Julian from communicating with him. John wrote to his cousin Liela that when he was with May Pang, he would talk to Julian once a week, but once he got back together with Yoko, he suspected that Cynthia purposely stopped Julian from talking to him, because whenever he would call, Julian never seemed to be available.

Probably the most legitimate criticisms of Yoko in relation to the Beatles, though, was that John would have her speak on his behalf at some of their band meetings, and she would do this willingly, which really got under the others' skin. When George quit during the LIB sessions, John tried to do this at a meeting to get him to come back, and George called the meeting off. They met again a few days later, sans Yoko, and the band had it out about that issue and all their other issues, and John seemed to not let it happen so much after that.

And she was also a supporter of Allen Klein during the whole Klein/Eastman fiasco, and she probably influenced John's decision to go with Klein. Though I think even that can be attributed to her entirely--Mick Jagger and the Stones were the ones who recommended Klein to John, and George and Ringo were impressed with him, too. It was more of a pissing match that went beyond Yoko, though Yoko certainly didn't help matters.

And then, of course, she was a constant presence in the recording studio once she got together with John. Though, again, that was more John's doing than hers. If John had told her, "It would be better if you stayed home," she would have. She would later say that the lack of privacy and John's smothering her were a big reason they broke up in 1973-74. But at the beginning she found it endearing, so she went along with it. She probably should have known better, but the whole thing with Yoko being there all the time seems to have been a passive-aggressive move on John's part to drive a wedge between him and the other Beatles rather than something that Yoko thought up or had insisted upon. Still, if she'd wanted to, she could have told him, "It's too hostile, I don't want to be there." Then again, maybe that did happen at some point, but as Paul said during the LIB sessions, it seems John was of the mind, "If Yoko's not there, I'm not there, either." So even if she did say something like that to John privately, his reaction was probably, "If you're not going, I'm not going," so she decided to go. Regardless, it was weird, and she probably could have got John to back off if she'd been more forceful about it.

She's far from a perfect person, and even the legitimate criticisms are often distorted, but she's definitely not beyond criticism. She was definitely a "weird" influence on John, to say the least. On the other hand, after they quit heroin, she kept John quite grounded. They became quite domesticated from 1975 on. Meanwhile, Ringo became a severe alcoholic despite having three children at home, and George had a cocaine problem and drank rather heavily, too, at the time that John had settled down, largely due to Yoko's influence. On the whole, I think she was good for him, but she wasn't without her flaws.

O man, you seems to be someone who know everything about The Beatles, great, thanks. For now I got Lennon: The Life and this Emerciks' story which I have already begun and I must say that first chapters are very good. Really enjoy description of the feelings this young's men, how huge were Beatles to him, like to guy from the street, like... to me. Maybe this why it works.

Btw. do you know The John Lenoon Letters (https://www.amazon.com/John-Lennon-Letters/dp/0316200808)? This is from Davis and I'm interesting about this becouse it's the secound book available in my first language (polish) about The Beatles. Idk, there are just a letters, but maybe after "The Life" I should take it?