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Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is perhaps my most favorite Beatles connected book. Why? Because it offers such a fascinating perspective on the recording of The Beatles legendary LPs.

I like that the book is concentrated on what was occurring within the studio instead of what the members of the band were doing personally as far as who they were dating and all of that kind of stuff. Comparatively other books on The Beatles are too targeted on the biography of The Beatles and not enough on the music. It’s because of the music that anyone cares about their personal stories.

The book is not entirely regarding The Beatles, it is really a Geoff Emerick autobiography (with a clear focus on his time with The Beatles) but if you’re thinking that that may make it not as interesting, I really don’t think that is true. I truly believe it helps make his interactions with The Beatles seem more “real.”

The book’s “realness” is one of the greatest things about it. I have read a heap of books on the Fab Four but most of them seem quite clinical in comparison. Like a bunch of facts pieced together. With this book I really felt like I was there at Abbey Road in the ’60s. Like a fly on the wall.

This book offers a great look into The Beatles as musicians there’s actually a series of books called The Beatles as Musicians which goes into that more indepth.) We get a glimpse of Paul McCartney working for hours in the studio to get his bass guitar parts perfect and we see Harrison improve his guitar playing abilities through the decade.

Emerick was a very necessary part of the band’s sound throughout their most creative period in the mid ’60s. Incredibly on his 1st full day as lead recording engineer he came up with ideas which helped make “Tomorrow Never Knows” sound so revolutionary.

If you are interested in buying this book you are not stuck with buying it on old fashioned paper, you’ll also buy it for your Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle yet then I recommend buying the 9.7″ Kindle DX because of it’s bigger size, it makes it much easier to read. If you reside outside of the States, you will need to get a Global Kindle.

Of course reading about The Beatles will only get you half way there, you will also want to get The Beatles Remastered Mono Box Set so you can easily follow along with Emerick’s book with the right soundtrack.