Mark Lewisohn Books In Order

Publication Order of The Beatles: All These Years Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Mark Lewisohn is an English biographer best known in his role as the world authority on the Beatles. He has written numerous books about the band, including The Beatles: All These Years, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicle. The author was in demand as a researcher and was used as a resource for the television, DVDs, CDs and book of the Beatles own Anthology.

Lewisohn was born in 1958 in London. After his education, Mark went to work in several admin positions at the BBC before leaving to pursue a career as the research manager at the trade magazine Music Week. He would eventually leave that career in 1983 and then embark on a freelance career as he hoped to turn his lifelong interest in the Beatles into his profession.

His knowledge of the Beatles is world renowned and he was a long-time researcher for other writers before publishing his first book in the subject, Beatles Live!

That was only the beginning of his writing career about The Beatles as he followed that book up with The Beatles Recording Sessions. He was paid by EMI Records to go to the famous Abbey Road Studios to listen to all of the Beatles’ tapes, both the originals and the masters, and then write a book about them. He would continue his research by going into group’s radio, TV and film activities to make what many Beatles fans consider to be their bible, The Complete Beatles Chronicle.

His knowledge of the band was eventually acknowledged by the band itself when he was brought in to assist on all aspects of the Beatles Anthology. He work as both a researcher and a consultant on the TV series and even served as right-hand-man to legendary producer George Martin on the three CD releases. He also served as the contributing editor on the book that was released along with it. Mark got close to one particular Beatle, Paul, as he served as editor-writer of Paul and his wife Linda’s quarterly newspaper Club Sandwich for seven years.

In 1998, his agent convinced him that he should write a biography. He had recently worked on Mark’s Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy so he decided to stick in that area and chose Benny Hill as the subject. The legendary comedian had a unique life as he was a bit of an odd individual who became globally famous, but then became unpopular and reviled in his own country. The book was published in 2002 and did very well for Mark. It was his first foray into long-form narrative and he found that it was a good vehicle for his research.

Now that Mark knew that he had the chops to write a biography, he returned to the one subject that had dominated his writing career and inspired him in so many ways. Mark believed that the Beatles story had been told many times, but he believed that it had rarely been told well. He believes that the Beatles music transcends changing times. He began working on The Beatles: All These Years which was to become a a trilogy of the Beatles’ story. He first announced the series in 2005 and the first book wasn’t published until 2013.

With few people on Earth knowing as much about the Beatles as Mark, the series is a fresh, comprehensive, and even-handed look at the legendary band and its members. The first book in the set, Tune In, was released in 2013 and became a New York Times bestseller. After the release of the book, Lewisohn toured doing a one-man show throughout England which featured a multimedia history lecture about the Beatles’ last-made album.

Tune In is volume one in the All These Years series by Mark Lewisohn. The book was over ten years in the making and begins before the Beatles were even born and takes readers all the way to 1962 when they were on the verge of breaking through. Lewisohn takes readers on the lesser known story of the Beatles from the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg. Before the acclaim and international fame, this period is in some ways the most incredible period of all for the band. This is a complete account of the band’s family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their infatuation with American music. The nights at the Cavern Club, which are legendary in Beatles lore, are unforgettable in many ways as the band was able to partake in adventures that would become impossible later in their careers.

Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill is Lewisohn’s biography of Benny Hill. The comedian was famous around the world, but he was deeply private and uninterested in the trappings of success. He was a frugal man that lived in his childhood home even as he made millions of pounds in comedy. The book is filled with Lewisohn’s trademark research as he gets into the highs and lows, and the paradoxes of his life and career.

The Complete Beatles Chronicle is the definitive guide to the Beatles career from the stage to the studio, on television and on video. This book is Lewisohn at his most thorough and careful. His research is impeccable as he manages to speak with people who knew or worked with the band in any capacity. The book goes through their career year by year and gives a comprehensive look at what happened that year and the year’s significance.

Lewisohn is also on the co-writers of The Beatles’ London. The book is a guide to 467 different locations in and around London that have some sort of meaning to the career of The Beatles. This is a great book for fans who travel to London and want to see some of the places the the Beatles worked, played, and called home. Hardcore Beatles fans consider this book a must-have with rare photographs, detailed maps, and much more.