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This space covers academic sources on the Beatles you may find useful for expanding or revising articles. For more general sources, consult Wikipedia's perennial sources list that determines which are and are not reliable; as an example, Rolling Stone is, while Discogs is not.

Books

Primary sources, so books penned by the Beatles or people very close to the Beatles and collections of the Beatles' material

• Aldridge, Alan (1999). The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN 1-57912-058-X.
• The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-811-82684-8.
• The Beatles (2003). The Beatles Anthology (DVD). Apple Records. ASIN B00008GKEG.
• Best, Pete (1989). BEATLE! The Pete Best Story. Plexus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0859650779.
• Brown, Peter; Gaines, Steven (1983). The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-36134-2.
• Brown, Peter; Gaines, Steven (2002). The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles (Reprint ed.). NAL Tradem. ISBN 978-0451207357.
• Emerick, Geoff (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. Gotham. ISBN 978-1592401796.
• Epstein, Brian (1964). A Cellarful of Noise. Byron Preiss. ISBN 978-0-671-01196-3. OCLC 39211052. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Gambaccini, Paul (1993). Paul McCartney: In His Own Words. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0860012399.
• Harrison, George (1980). I, Me, Mine. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-42787-3.
• Lennon, Cynthia (1978). A Twist of Lennon. Avon.
• Lennon, Cynthia (2006). John. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-89828-3.
• Lopez, Rosaura (2005). En casa de John Lennon [At John Lennon's House] (in Spanish). Hercules Ediciones. ISBN 978-8496314184.
• Martin, George; Pearson, William (1994). With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-54783-2.
• Martin, George; Hornsby, Jeremy (1994). All You Need Is Ears. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-11482-6.
• Pang, May (1983). Loving John. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-37916-8.
• Pang, May (2008). Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-37741-0.
• McCartney, Paul; Muldoon, Paul (2023). The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. Liveright. ISBN 9781324094685.
• Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
• Wenner, Jann S (2000). Lennon Remembers. London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.

Secondary sources

Concerts and tours

• Armstrong, Greg; Neill, Andy (2024). When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964. Woodslane Press, Warriewood NSW, Australia. ISBN 978-1-922800-68-8.

Instruments

• Babiuk, Andy (2002). Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio (Revised ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-662-9.

The Beatles divorced

• Badman, Keith (1999). The Beatles After the Breakup 1970-2000: A day-by-day diary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-7520-5.
• Doggett, Peter (2011) [2009]. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup. It Books. ISBN 978-0-06-177418-8.
• Miles, Barry; Badman, Keith (2001). The Beatles Diary: After the Break-Up 1970-2001. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0711983076.

Lennon

• Bresler, Fenton (1990). Who Killed John Lennon. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-92367-8.
• Coleman, Ray (1989). Lennon: The Definitive Biography. Harper. ISBN 0-330-48330-7.
• Connolly, Ray (1981). John Lennon 1940–1980. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-636405-4.
• McCabe, Peter; Schonfeld, Robert D. (1984). John Lennon: For the Record. Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553248029.
• Norman, Philip (2008). John Lennon: The Life. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-075401-3.
• Wiener, Jon (1995). Come Together: John Lennon In His Time. Random House. ISBN 978-0-571-13576-9.
• Wiener, Jon (1999). Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22246-6.

McCartney

• Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years From Now. Vintage-Random House. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4.
• Norman, Philip (2017). Paul McCartney: The Life. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316327978.
• Peel, Ian (2002). The Unknown Paul McCartney. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1-903111-36-6.
• Sandford, Christopher (2006). McCartney. Random House. ISBN 978-0786716142.

Harrison

• Greene, Joshua M. (2007). Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3.
• Giuliano, Geoffrey (1997). Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison (Revised ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80747-5.
• Huntley, Elliot J. (2004). Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Break-up of the Beatles. Guernica Editions. ISBN 1-55071-197-0.
• Leng, Simon (2006). While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. Hal Leonard. ISBN 1-4234-0609-5.

Martin

• Womack, Kenneth (2017). Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Early Years, 1926-1966). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61373-189-5.
• Womack, Kenneth (2018). Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Later Years, 1966-2016). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-0-91277-774-0.

Epstein

• Coleman, Ray (1989). Brian Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-81474-1.
• Geller, Deborah (1999). The Brian Epstein Story. Faber and Faber Ltd. ISBN 0-571-20156-3.

Apple

• DiLello, Richard (1973). The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of the Beatles, Their Million-dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise and Fall. Playboy Press. ISBN 1-84195-602-3.
• Granados, Stefan (2002). Those Were the Days: An Unofficial History of the Beatles Apple Organization 1967-2001. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 978-1901447125.

Encyclopedias

• Harry, Bill (1992). The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-86369-681-3.
• Harry, Bill (1997). The Encyclopedia of Beatles People. Blandford Pr. ISBN 978-0713726060.
• Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
• Harry, Bill (2002). The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0716-1.
• Womack, Kenneth (2014). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four. ABC-CLIO: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-39171-2.

• Braun, Michael (1995). Love Me Do: The Beatles' Progress (Reprint ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-002278-3.

• Davies, Hunter (2004). The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (Revised ed.). Cassell Illustrated. ISBN 1-84403-104-7.
• Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul. US: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514105-9.
• Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology Project. US: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512941-5.
• Frame, Pete (1999). Pete Frame's Rockin' Around Britain: Rock'n'roll Landmarks of the UK and Ireland. Music Sales Group. ISBN 0-7119-6973-6.
• Gould, Jonathan (2008). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. Piatkus Books. ISBN 978-0-7499-2988-6.
• Ingham, Chris (2006). The Rough Guide to the Beatles. Rough Guides. ISBN 1843537206.
• Leonard, Hal (1993). The Beatles - Complete Scores. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 978-0-7935-1832-6.
• Lipack, Richard Warren (1996). Epoch Moments and Secrets. Barrister Publishers. ISBN 978-0965095914.
• Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
• Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-681-03189-1.
• Lewisohn, Mark (1996). The Complete Beatles Chronicle. Chronicle Press. ISBN 1-85152-975-6.
• Lewisohn, Mark (2002). Wingspan. Little, Brown and Company (New York). ISBN 0-316-86032-8.
• Lewisohn, Mark (2013). The Beatles: All These Years: Volume I: Tune In. Crown Archetype. ISBN 978-1-4000-8305-3.
• MacDonald, Ian (1995). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. Vintage. ISBN 0-7126-6697-4.
• MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
• Madinger, Chip; Easter, Mark (2000). Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. 44.1 Productions. ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
• Miles, Barry (1998). The Beatles Diary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0711963153.
• Norman, Philip (1993). Shout!. Pan Books. ISBN 978-0330487689.
• Pawlowski, Gareth L (1990). How They Became The Beatles. McDonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-19052-8.
• Pedler, Dominic (2003). The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-8167-1.
• Riley, Tim (2002). Tell Me Why – The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81120-3.
• Ryan, David Stuart (1990). John Lennon's Secret: A Biography. Kozmik Press. ISBN 978-0905116204.
• Schaffner, Nicholas (1978). The Beatles Forever. New York City, New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-055087-5.
• Schechter, Danny (1997). The More You Watch, the Less You Know: News Wars/Submerged Hopes/Media Adventures. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-888363-80-0.
• Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1-84513-160-6.
• Spizer, Bruce (2003). The Beatles Are Coming!: The Birth of Beatlemania in America. Four Ninety-Eight Productions. ISBN 978-0-9662649-8-2.
• Winn, John C. (2009). That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966–1970. New York City, New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-45239-9.

Web sources

• Soundscapes: Here, Alan W. Pollack studies each of the Beatles' songs from a musicological perspective. His writings are wordy but thorough, and definitely helpful in adding length to articles on Beatles songs; they may also be included as an external link.