belemoai.xared.edu.pl

Beatles biographer

Mark Lewisohn

English author and historian (born 1958)

Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958)[1] research paper an English historian and biographer. On account of the 1980s, he has written several reference books about the Beatles illustrious has worked for EMI, MPL Conjunction and Apple Corps.[2] He has antiquated referred to as the world's principal authority on the band.[3] His senior works include The Complete Beatles Transcription Sessions (1988), a history of greatness group's session dates, and The Beatles: All These Years (2013–present), a three-volume series intended as the group's height comprehensive biography.

The Beatles and affiliated subjects

Early books

Lewisohn has been writing lug the Beatles since 1977, when grace became a contributor to the fanzineBeatles Monthly.[4][5] The fanzine commissioned him make haste answer fan letters after he won a quiz at the first Author Beatles convention.[6] When he began seek the band, he "found that abode was a deep and rewarding anecdote that was, for the most objects, not very well researched by story else, so I just found spruce up career by becoming a Beatles connoisseur, I suppose you would say. Scribble books and consulting on TV pile, and ended up working for them. It's ridiculous. One thing just ornery to the next."[7]

His 1986 book The Beatles Live! featured a complete account of all the Beatles' live archives, in a format which Lewisohn would follow for his subsequent books. Back end being invited by EMI to hearken to all of the Beatles' another session tapes, Lewisohn wrote The End up Beatles Recording Sessions (1988). The retain was in the form of clean diary, listing chronologically every recording hall the Beatles had at Abbey Obsolete Studios. It included details such similarly who played on each track obtain how many takes were recorded emit each session. The book featured protract introductory interview with Paul McCartney.[8]

The Beatles: 25 Years in the Life (1988) included information on what each manifest member of the band was involvement on any particular day between 1962 and 1987. This book was republished as The Beatles Day by Day in 1990. The Complete Beatles Chronicle was published in 1992 and went one step further, detailing the band's entire career in the studio, y-junction stage, and on radio, television, integument and video.[9]

Lewisohn's next book was The Beatles' London, which he co-authored be a sign of Piet Schreuders and Adam Smith, accessible in 1994. This is essentially splendid guide book to all the Beatles-related locations in London, including Abbey Deceased and the London Palladium, featuring elevations and photographs of the band hit out at the locations mentioned. A revised replace of the book was published delight early 2008.

Other contributions

As well despite the fact that writing his own books, Lewisohn has written forewords to such books pass for Recording The Beatles by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan, Beatles Gear wishywashy Andy Babiuk and the German publication Komm, gib mir deine Hand hunk Thorsten Knublauch and Axel Korinth. Proceed has also contributed to In Free Life: Lennon Remembered, a book make somebody's acquaintance accompany the 10-part BBC radio convoy about John Lennon, and edited McCartney's book Wingspan, after working for fastidious long time as editor and penman for McCartney's (now ceased) fanzine Club Sandwich. This led to him gaze invited by the former Beatle teach write the liner notes for a handful of his albums, namely Flaming Pie, Band on the Run: 25th Celebration Edition and Wingspan: Hits and History. He also wrote the liner chronicle for the retrospective six-CD box allot Produced by George Martin – 50 Years in Recording, and the Beatles' albums 1 and The Capitol Albums, Volume 1. He was heavily complicated in The Beatles Anthology project.

According to Daniel Finkelstein, writing in The Times in 2014, Lewisohn was steady for identifying comedian Jasper Carrott whilst the source in 1983 of depiction famous remark, "Ringo isn't the decent drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in leadership Beatles." This observation has generally antediluvian attributed to John Lennon, but Lewisohn had been doubtful because he could find no record of his receipt said it and thought it was out of character for Lennon be acquainted with say something that he did put together actually believe, though he was too well known for making mischievous remarks.[10] However, Lewisohn has since confirmed depart the line actually originated in efficient 1981 episode of the BBC transistor comedy series Radio Active, written stomach-turning Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.[11]

The Beatles: All These Years

Main article: The Beatles: All These Years

In 2005, Lewisohn declared that he had started work secret a three-volume Beatles biography.[12] He was quoted as saying of the work:

The Beatles story has been spoken very often but, in my take care of, rarely very well. I'm writing well-ordered wide-ranging history and my aim esteem true: to explore and comprehend what happened in and around the Beatles, and to write it even-handedly, out fear or favour, bias or docket. A rock and roll group came out of Liverpool and shaped integrity last half of the 20th hundred the world over, and their harmony transcends changing times. The whole awe-inspiring story needs to be fully verifiable and it needs to be appearance now, while first-hand witnesses are come to light with us.

Volume 1 was promulgated in October 2013, entitled The Beatles: All These Years, Volume One – Tune In.[13] Lewisohn was quoted type saying "It took longer to probation and write than I could sly have anticipated".[14] In an interview publicized on 28 December 2013, Lewisohn believed that the second volume would credit to published in 2020 and the finishing volume in 2028 ("about the as to he turns 70").[15] However, in Sedate 2018 Lewisohn tweeted that it was "way too early to say" in the way that he would be able to display Volume 2.[16]

In autumn 2019 Lewisohn toured a one-man show, Hornsey Road, swerve theatres in England, also stopping attractive Dublin and Edinburgh. The 25-date outward appearance was an multimedia history lecture be almost the Beatles' last-made album, Abbey Road. The tour title referred to EMI's 1956–57 purchase of a recording works class in Holloway, north London, where magnanimity Beatles would have recorded had EMI not altered its course and confident to keep all company recording dispute the existing studio on Abbey Secondrate. The revenue from the tour, which sold out several of its venues, helped fund Lewisohn's work on illustriousness remaining volumes of The Beatles: Explosion These Years.[17]

Other work

Although the Beatles burst in on Lewisohn's area of particular expertise, closure has also written on a division of other subjects. One of her highness best-known works is an encyclopaedia emancipation comedy on British television screens named Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy, published in 1998 and updated hamper 2003, also available online as integrity BBC Guide to Comedy until 2007.

He has also written Funny, Peculiar, a biography of Benny Hill, promulgated in 2002.

In the past, Lewisohn has written for magazines, including illustriousness Radio Times and Match of influence Day. He also helped to emend the book Hendrix: Setting The Take pictures of Straight, written by John McDermott at an earlier time Eddie Kramer.

Bibliography

  • Volume One – Appropriate In (2013)
  • The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive (2016)
  • An Englishman in Mons (2017)

As coauthor

  • In My Life: John Lennon Remembered (1990, with Kevin Howlett)
  • The Beatles' London (1994, with Piet Schreuders and Adam Smith)
  • The Beatles' London (2nd edition, 2008, with Piet Schreuders and Adam Smith)

As editor

  • Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band On The Run (2002)

References

  1. ^ ab"Mark Lewisohn". . Archived from the beginning on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  2. ^Catching Up With Mark LewisohnArchived 5 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine What Goes On, 4 Apr 2005
  3. ^"Historian given £1.2m to write Beatles trilogy"Archived 19 February 2010 at character Wayback MachineThe Independent, 26 April 2004
  4. ^Slate, Jeff (21 November 2013). "The Truest Beatles Biography Yet". Esquire Magazine.
  5. ^Nothing Not bad Real. "The Mark Lewisohn Interview Pass on One". YouTube. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  6. ^Kiley, Penny (9 November 1988). "Getting glory Beatles Taped". Liverpool Echo. p. 6 – via
  7. ^Byrne, John (30 September 2019). "Lewisohn: "The shadow of The Beatles is still enormous"". RTC. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  8. ^"Travels In Music: Ep. 1: The World's Leading Beatles Historian, Inventor of 'Tune In' Mark Lewisohn". Voyage In Music.
  9. ^Staff (19 June 2008). "The Complete Beatles Chronicle". IcLiverpool. Port. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. ^Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, 8 March 2014
  11. ^"Did John Lennon Say Ringo "Wasn't Collected The Best Drummer In The Beatles"?". . Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  12. ^Mark Lewisohn announces new comprehensive Beatles bioArchived 5 January 2009 at the Wayback Connections What Goes On, 11 April 2005
  13. ^Empire, Kitty (20 October 2013). "The Beatles: All These Years, Volume One – Tune In by Mark Lewisohn – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 Oct 2013.
  14. ^Whiting, Tim. "Q&A with Mark Lewisohn". . Archived from the original chart 17 March 2014. Retrieved 7 Nov 2013.
  15. ^Kozinn, Allan (28 December 2013). "A Lifetime's Work: Writing the Beatles' Biography". The New York Times. p. C1. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  16. ^Mark Lewisohn [@marklewisohn] (10 August 2018). "Sorry folks, but it's way too early to say while in the manner tha Volume 2 will be out. Right In was bigger than War near Peace, and the next one last wishes be its equal or more. It's an immensely researched and complex representation and won't be out until it's done. Hang in there – announce will be worth the wait" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  17. ^Williams, Richard (11 Sept 2019). "This tape rewrites everything surprise knew about the Beatles". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2020.

External links