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Gonorrhea plagued the Beatles after a wild stint in Hamburg, greatly complicating both their personal and professional lives, according to Bob Spitz??s uncomfortably-detailed history of the band, simply entitled “The Beatles...
Harvard students considering inter-disciplinary work need only look to Spitz??s analysis of the band’s formation to see a master at work. The book does not begin with the creation of the band. The narrative begins in 1800s Liverpool, mapping out the socioeconomic formation of the city. Spitz uses this setting as a platform to describe the historic Irish migration patterns that brought both the Lennons and McCartneys to Liverpool...
What truly sets Spitz??s account apart from other works is the level of detail in his research. Although the book reveals little that’s new in terms of the band’s general history, fascinating anecdotes abound...
Occasionally, Spitz??s frightfully exhaustive eye strays too far away from his subjects, as when he goes into the matter of manager Epstein’s tortured homosexuality, offering up Epstein’s once-private journal with the passage: “‘It was at this school…that I can first remember my feeling for other male persons and a longing for a close and intimate friend.’” While mildly captivating and distantly related to the band’s creation, some readers may be turned...
...Spitz??s prose occasionally drifts into the realm of chuckle-inducing clichés, as when he writes that the Beatles “were actually going on the road—a road from which they would never look back...