by: Harold Maxwell Quesenberry
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Geoff Emerick's Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is maybe my very favorite Beatles related book. Why is that? Because it gives such an interesting and lifelike perspective on recording The Beatles legendary albums such as 1966's Revolver.

I love that the book is targeted on what was happening within the studio rather than what the guys were doing personally. Comparatively other books are far too targeted on the biography of The Beatles and not enough on the music that made them famous. It's as a result of of their albums that anyone is interested in their biography.

The book isn't entirely regarding The Beatles, it's really a Geoff Emerick autobiography (with a clear focus on his time recording The Beatles) but if you think that may make it less interesting, I really don't think that it does. I really think it helps make his stories about The Beatles appear more "real."

The book's "realness" is one of my favorite things about it. I've read a ton of books on the Fab Four but many of them seem kind of clinical in comparison. Like a bunch of trivia strung together. With this book I really felt like I was there at Abbey Road Studio in the '60s. Sort of a fly on the wall, taking it all in.

This book gives 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 in depth.) We get a glimpse of McCartney working tirelessly to get his bass parts on Sgt. Pepper just right and we see Harrison greatly improve his guitar playing abilities through the decade.

Emerick was a very necessary part of the band's sound during their most creative period in the mid '60s. Incredibly on his initial full day as lead engineer he came up with concepts that helped make the last track on Revolver, "Tomorrow Never Knows," sound so futuristic.

If you are interested in shopping for this book you are not stuck with buying it on old fashioned paper, you'll also obtain it for your Kindle. If you do not have a Kindle yet then I suggest shopping for the Kindle DX Digital Reader because of it's greater size, it makes it more easy to read. If you live outside of the United States, you will need to get a Kindle with Global Wireless.

Of course, as much as I enjoy reading about The Beatles, I enjoy listening to their albums even more. I think it is a great idea to have the new remastered versions of The Beatles back catalog available to listen to while you are thumbing through this book. I particularly suggest getting The Beatles Mono Box Set since Emerick mentions on several occasions in this book how he thinks that the mono mixes are the superior versions of those albums that have a mono mix (especially Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.)

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The Beatles Remastered Vinyl when it comes out. Forget the latest garbage on the Billboard Charts, The Beatles are where it's at.

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