Beatles myths and lies we were told (video)

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The Beatles narrative: LIES we've been told

(Pop Goes the 60s | #047, 12/27/20) Erin Torkelson Weber wrote a book, The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings About the Fab Four.

Erin Torkelson Weber

It outlines the four Beatles' narratives that have shaped the telling of Beatles' history. This book review offers and overview and highlights.

The book

Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and presented by journalists and biographers as "history."

Many of these works, strictly speaking, do not qualify as history. The mythology continues to be told.

But this book examines the band's historiography, exploring the four major narratives that have developed over time, namely, the:

1. 

   People prefer myth and fantasy ($$$).

   whitewashed "Fab Four"
2. breakup-era Lennon Remembers
3. biased "Shout!" (in the wake of John Lennon's assassination)
4. current Mark Lewisohn orthodox version.

Drawing on the most influential primary and secondary sources,  historical methods are used to analyze Beatles history.

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