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This is great.
I wasn't a massive Beatles fan (I liked some of what I'd heard, but felt a bit daunted by the amount of stuff out there), but reading an extract from this in The Guardian last year encouraged me to give them more of a go.
Since then I've been deep into their music, and I've been reading this for the last few days.
It's unlike any biography I've read before - although it's generally chronological, every chapter is a different anecdote or essay, and it works really well. He's a very droll writer, and clearly loves his subject, while being generally suspicious of the veneration they receive and the anorak nature of some of their fans and biographers.
Definitely recommended even if you don't really like The Beatles.