So here are a few nits I couldn’t help picking while reading Tune In. It’s a little like Revolver having ‘Yellow Submarine’ on it – it’s still a majestic album, but not quite a flawless one (in my opinion). But Lewisohn sets such high standards, you can’t help but notice if he falls short once in a while or leaves some questions unanswered. And, as it is, they don’t cast any real blemish over the regular, 840-page version. It may be that some of them are addressed in the extended (double-length) ‘author’s cut’ of the book. But is it perfect? It comes staggeringly close but, no, I do have a handful of gripes with it. It richly deserves all the bouquets and plaudits which have come its way, and I have no doubt it will come to be seen as the ‘Bible’ on the band (not that I am comparing The Beatles to Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing in any way whatsoever, you understand). Last time out I waxed lyrical about Tune In, the first volume of Mark Lewisohn’s mammoth Beatles biography, which was published in 2013.
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