This is a very good interview, I’ve watched it twice now, sitting in my mountain lodge caught in torrents of rain for a few days. Now is the time that the history should be codified.Īnyway, go watch it at Team Coco. He’s in a sweet spot - the Beatles story is pretty much concluded, but many of the most important sources are still alive. If his three-book advance runs out before he’s done, I’ll run a Kickstarter to get it finished. Said it before, I’ll say it again: we all owe Mark Lewisohn a tremendous debt. Particularly the documents tell a radically different story.” And it’s shown, because I found so many people who’d never been a book before, who tell completely different stories. I always felt this was a subject that would merit much deeper research.

And in that time, they’ll do six to nine months of research, six to nine months of interviews, and then they’ll write. “Most of the books you have read, upon which you base your knowledge,” Lewisohn begins, “in terms of biography they only skim the surface.

Comedy legend (and serious Beatle fan) Conan O’Brien has just interviewed Beatle legend (and serious Beatle fan) Mark Lewisohn on his chat show “Serious Jibber-Jabber.” It’s well worth a listen.

Serious jibber jabber