He has been referred to as the world's leading authority on the band due to his meticulous research and integrity. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English historian and biographer. The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.I try to see everything people are saying, but I've scarcely time to respond personally, not least because I really do have to focus and press ahead with Volume 2. Thank you to everyone who's bought TUNE IN, in whatever form, and to those who've been airing their thoughts and views, their compliments and criticisms. Maybe one day, but there are no plans at present. For those who want an audio version of the ESE, sorry, there isn't one. For those who ask about it coming out anywhere else, there's no news. In the meantime, people worldwide are buying it from .uk, and perhaps there'll be other sources as well. Crown Archetype are in New York – if you want to press them to decide Yes, feel free to go ahead. The decision is not mine: it's for the US publisher of TUNE IN to make. For those who ask 'Is the extended edition coming out in America?' the answer is still unclear. The research will tell me where the break for Volume 3 should come until then I'm keeping an open mind.

I'm very proud of it – but now I'm moving on, to research and write Volume 2, picking up from 1963 and running to. If you buy the ESE, you'll get more coverage of everything, more layers, more depth, more context, more anecdotes, more Beatles. If you've bought that book, in whatever format, you do have the complete story. Like the mass-market edition, it ends on 31 December 1962. This edition has everything I wrote, and is the fullest culmination of my work for the last ten years, in which I've set out to research and tell the truest possible and most accurate account of the Beatles and their times, from family backgrounds onwards. They won't be sold separately, though they are available as separate e-books. It runs to 1728 pages, bound in two books inside a box. Mark Lewisohn - The Extended Special Edition (ESE) of my book TUNE IN – Volume 1 of The Beatles: All These Years – is published in the UK tomorrow, 14 November 2013, by Little, Brown.

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