Beatlemania: The best books about The Beatles
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Non-Fiction
More books have been written about the Beatles than any other performers in entertainment history.
Peter Doggett (author of You Never Give Me Your Money about the legacy of the Beatles' break-up) and Steven Cockcroft (host of the Nothing Is Real Beatles podcast) look back at 60 years of Beatles books, picking out the good, the bad and the ugly - and speculate about what is still to come.
Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music and cultural history for more than 40 years. He is best known for his book about the break-up of the Beatles and its aftermath, You Never Give Me Your Money. His most recent book, Growing Up, is a portrait of the sexual culture of the 1960s and its awkward blend of liberation and exploitation.
Steven Cockcroft is a lawyer working in Belfast and also co-hosts the hugely popular Beatles podcast Nothing Is Real, as recommended by The New York Times. He and his co-host Jason Carty have also recently made several programmes for Radio Ulster tracing the Irish roots of international musicians and bands.
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