While writing about The Beatles, Hunter Davies got to know the band well. He considered McCartney a very likable person. “Paul was the easiest to talk to,” Davies wrote in the book The ...

“It was natural we should put on our best show,” Lennon said in the book The Beatles by Hunter Davies. “We had to appear nice for people like the reporters, even the ones who were ...

According to Hunter Davies, the author of the only authorized biography of the band, business dealings became so complicated that it took the Beatles’ attention away from music. “In London ...

The Beatles split in 1969, and they announced their break up in 1970. According to Hunter Davies, the author of the band’s only authorized biography, however, they began the process of breaking ...

Make this list your launchpad for further explorations in the realm of Beatles books. Hunter Davies was a columnist for the Sunday Times in London, and had interviewed Paul McCartney for the paper.

“When [the Beatles] used to get together after a month off, we used to be embarrassed about touching each other,” he told the band’s biographer, Hunter Davies, that same year. “We’d do ...

According to Hunter Davies, who wrote the only authorized biography of the band, said Starr didn’t have much to do in the studio. By the late 1960s, all the Beatles were growing tired of working ...

Writer Hunter Davies spent a great deal of time with The Beatles in the 1960s and wrote the only authorized biography of the band. He got to know each of the members well and saw how they ...

Hunter Davies, who wrote the only authorized biography ... before quickly tiring of them,” Davies wrote in The Beatles. “For months I seem to remember he was mucking around with ‘Across ...

“If it hadn’t been for The Beatles, I would probably have ended up like Freddie,” Lennon told writer Hunter Davies in the book The Beatles. Davies thought this was ridiculous given Lennon ...

Out of the public eye, though, some had different experiences with the two Beatles. A friend of the band said he knew many ...