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The Beatles: In Their Own Words Kindle Edition

by Barry Miles (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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From first hit, through Lennon wit, to final fit, this book is by the four who knew the Beatles best—themselves.

Barry Miles was of close association with the Beatles—he witnessed numerous recording sessions, attended the Sgt. Pepper’s photo shoot, took part singing in the live, “All You Need Is Love” television session, and ran Zapple, the spoken-word label of Apple Records.

With John Dunbar and Peter Asher, Barry Miles opened the counterculture Indica Books and Gallery—from inventory of which, John Lennon obtained a copy of The Psychedelic Experience, by Timothy Leary—having, “turn off your mind, relax, float downstream” in introduction. Miles later helped Lennon handle tape loops, in recording “Tomorrow Never Knows.”

And through such Indica association, John Lennon would meet Yoko Ono.

The Beatles: In Their Own Words, was culled from interviews and clippings, from miles of Miles files.

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November 28, 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GXMVEJ0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Larchwood & Weir (November 28, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 28, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 291 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages

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In their Own Writings

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022

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Some of interviews I've seen, make the book a lot better to read. Really the part was mistakenky quote for Jesus. I believe the fans took it a lot easier with the song, "The Balld of Yoko and John." I believe journalists are always for interview just to make somebody uneasy about themselves.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023

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For those of us who would prefer facts over opinion, too much opinion. Not enough factual experience or historical discussion.

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Virginia Buck-Kelly

Good Read...

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2022

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Barry Miles was a very close friend of all four Beatles, that's what drew me to the book. Interesting interviews culled from different sources, a good read.....

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John Jackse

Excellent review of their years

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

Wonderful recap of their perspective during their years together it is worth your time to read quick read. And easygoing

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Truly their own words

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2008

This was the first of the many books I've read about the Beatles. It is as much the way the previous reviewers below describe it - - but for me when reading it the first time really touched my imagination. I was a young Beatle freak in the early 1980's, hungry for Beatles info. I got the book as a gift from my family, after they saw that I was listening to same Beatles albums over and over again. So when I got the book I read through it with obsessive fascination. The book had the affect on me that I began thinking about the world around me as the Beatles did. The different ideas, events or songs talked about by the Beatles in this book were described in such a way that - - along with the wonderful music - - as I got older always would be a part of my personal development. The stuff Lennon, McCartney and Harrison come up with here is endlessly fun, particularly in the song-by-song and events sections. Also, Lennon's commentary on the Beatles' films is quite devastating - - he didn't have a good thing to say about any of them except perhaps AHDN (and really, it sounds like he's holding back on that one).
Anyway, this is the book that started me off on the long and winding road, as McCartney would say. After all these years, looking at my old tattered copy of it, I'd have to say "Beatles In Their Words" is still amongst the top ten Beatles' books of all time. Top three in terms of nostalgia. I would recommend it for new Beatles fans, along with books written by Nicholas Shaffner, Mark Lewisohn, Philip Norman, and Ian Macdonald. I still like above all other's Hunter Davies authorized biography of the Beatles (first published in 1968).

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Pilgrim

No filters, just Beatles

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2014

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Interesting, but nothing groundbreaking. Beatle fans will enjoy it. Check out the many excellent biographies in the market. Good luck!

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Sheena Carver

retro fun!

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2010

This magazine-sized book contains many large photos of the Beatles and great quotes from each member of the band on their lives, song lyrics, extra curricular activities, and politics. It is an interesting read for any fan. The only thing I didn't like is that the quotes are not always dated, and information is not well-sourced. Despite that, I enjoyed the book.

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N. Lembo

Pretty boring

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2014

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I've read much more interesting books on the Beatles. It wasn't worth it for me. Try Mark Lewisohn, it's long but more thorough

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christine poole

great book, for a 60th birthday in jan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2015

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great book,for a 60th birthday in jan,im sure my husband will love it,good price.fast delivery aswell

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Blue Lake Bookster

They could see for Miles

Reviewed in Australia on November 19, 2015

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In various incarnations this book has been kicking around for many years from now; I remember reading it in my high school library back in 1987. So it's good to see it again after so long, newly republished and repackaged for the Kindle generation with a shiny new cover showing the Beatles circa The White Album if I'm not mistaken and with a reasonable price considering how expensive books have now become on Amazon Australia.
The book is a shorter prototype for the much later and lavish Anthology tome, sans illustrations. It collects quotes from each of the Beatles, individually and as a group, both during and after the Beatle years and arranges these not chronologically but by themes-as a result the book does make for a somewhat jumbled, jerky read. For those who are interested, the themes are:
The Story
Press Conferences
Songwriting
The Songs
The Films
Drugs
Politics
Many if not most of the quotes will be very familiar to Beatles aficionados through the endless recycling across hundreds of Beatles books, although some were probably fresh at the time this particular book first came out. There are great slabs lifted from John's infamous Lennon Remembers 1970 interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, fresh from the bitter breakup of the Beatles. Many other quotes come from contemporaneous press conferences and newspaper intervies, such as John's equally infamous more famous than Christ profile by Maureen Cleave. I'm not sure how many quotes are from direct interviews with Barry Miles himself. Certainly Miles was a close confidant of the ban for many years, Paul McCartney in particular (he authored Paul's official biography Many Years From Now in the 90s) and was a prime mover and shaker in Swinging London in his own right. At least he was there and part of the scene, unlike so many of the rip off merchants and second rate journalists who have authored Beatles books in the years since. None of the quotes are attributed to a source and many seemed to combine separate quotes into one piece of dialogue.
As the content itself, typically it is John who dominates the book, as interesting and outrageous, contradictory and caustic as he ever was. What a way with words he had (Barry Miles even did a separate John Lennon In His Own Words book which would be great to see on Kindle one day). Paul comes across as smug and smooth, Ringo droll and dense and while George has the least to say in the book, his quotes are serious and sincere, the perfect balance to John's joking and baloney.
This might make a good book for someone just starting a Beatles journey in print or a quick read for the hard core fan. In a similar vein is of course The Beatles own voluminous Anthology, the closest to an official Beatles autobiography there is, and Keith Badman's two volume Off The Record, an exhaustive collection of quotes the covers the entire Beatles story and then the solo years-available on Kindle it provides a meaty follow up to The Beatles In Their Own Words, which offers a tasty entree to this amazing band telling it how it was, is and ever shall be. Barry Miles also has his own massive two volume tome The Beatles Diary, volume one of which is on Kindle and provides a day by day coverage of the Fabs in the 60s.

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