This is the powerful inside story of the Beatles as told by those who lived and worked with the Beatles in the studio, on the road and in concert during the years 1960-1966 when the Beatles were performing as a live act. Included in this unique anthology of eye-witness accounts are the personal and very candid recollections of:
Pete Best, the original drummer
Allan Williams, the Beatles first manager
Sid Bernstein, promoter of the Shea Stadium concerts
Norman Smith, the studio engineer who recorded the Beatles in Abbey Road
Tony Bramwell, the ever-present Beatles roadie
Andy White, the drummer chosen by George Martin to record Love Me Do
Tony Barrow, writer of the Beatles record sleeve notes
Geoffrey Ellis, manager of Brain Epstein’s NEMS empire