Beatles' first recording session

Authorised biography of the Beatles by Hunter Davies

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by the British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early , two years before their break-up.

It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career. Davies published revised editions of the book in , , , , , and

Background

In , Hunter Davies was working as the Atticus columnist for the Sunday Times newspaper and had written two books, one of which was the novel Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

Moved by the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby", he visited Paul McCartney at the latter's house in St John's Wood, in September , intending to make the song the focus of his newspaper column. At a subsequent meeting at the house, Davies hoped to persuade McCartney to write the th