Pop Matter
September 28, 2011
"Mach Schau, Beatles!": Spencer Leigh's 'The Beatles in Hamburg'
In the book of transcribed in-studio chatter that accompanied the British box-set release of the Beatles’ ill-fated Dear-John letter, Let It Be, our lads squabble a lot about how the songs they are recording in a post-Pepper desire to return to their stripped-down roots should be debuted. Such venues as the Roman Coliseum and a luxury liner get tantalizingly tossed about, revealing the band still has a sense of occasion, if not grandiosity.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/148590-the-beatles-in-hamburg-by-spencer-leigh/
