Why read Dreaming the Beatles?

Book cover of Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

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An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism

“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at…

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2 authors picked Dreaming the Beatles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paul Levinson

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I’ve read many books about The Beatles. I have very high standards, given that The Beatles are easily my favorite rock band.

I love their music so much, I even wrote a science fiction alternate history novel in which John Lennon was never assassinated, and The Beatles were still together making great music in the 1990s.

Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield checks all of my boxes. Not only does it contain fabulous insights into The Beatles, laced with little-known facts about them, but the book is written in Sheffield’s inimitable style, in which he plays on the titles of…

From Paul's list on books about rock music.

Glenn Dixon

Author

Like none of the others, Dreaming the Beatles is more like a series of reflections from someone who came along well after the Beatles. The book was published in 2017 and it’s a fond look back at what still remains. Not so much a direct history as a sort of compendium of remembrance with chapters like “The Importance of Being Ringo” or “The Cover of Abbey Road.” A distinct pleasure to read.

From Glenn's list on the Beatles (from someone who loves them).