21 Top biography books like Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden

Cover of Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden

Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

By: Joe Goodden

4.23

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Who gave the drugs to the Beatles? I didn’t invent those things. I bought it from someone who got …

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Cover of Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year by Steve   Turner

1. Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

By: Steve Turner

4.26

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose gr… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. The Beatles: The Biography

By: Bob Spitz

4.09

Format: 983 pages, Paperback

Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend sm… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress by Michael Braun

3. Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress

By: Michael Braun

4.02

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

The year is 1963 and "Love Me Do" is the Beatles' first number one hit, closely followed by "Please… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan    Gould

4. Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

By: Jonathan Gould

4.19

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultur… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"It is the sound of the crowd that can be heard in the second, crescendoing rush of the orchestra that follows the final verse, rising from a hum to a gasp to a shout... fusing at last to a shriek (it…"

-Jonathan Gould, Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Cover of Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1) by Mark Lewisohn

5. Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

By: Mark Lewisohn

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tune Inis the first volume of All These Years--a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical tr… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup by Peter Doggett

6. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

By: Peter Doggett

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The world stopped in 1970 when Paul McCartney announced that he was through with the Beatles. His s… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret by Kent Hartman

7. The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

By: Kent Hartman

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller "It makes g… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter by June Skinner Sawyers, Astrid Kirchherr

8. Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter

By: June Skinner Sawyers , Astrid Kirchherr

3.32

Format: None pages,

A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab Four … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Testimony: A Memoir

By: Robbie Robertson

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most spellbinding, entertaining, major books of the fall: the long-awaited memoir from t… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

10. This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

By: Stephen Davis , Levon Helm

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Band, who backed Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965 and then turned out a half-dozen album… read more

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11. Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

By: None

2.00

Format: 161 pages, ebook

"This is the best book about the Beatles ever written" --Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stonec… read more

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12. Revolver: How the Beatles Reimagined Rock 'n' Roll

By: None

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Received wisdom has always put Sgt. Pepper at the head of the class, but it was Revolver that truly… read more

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13. Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After

By: Tim Riley

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

A unique combination of musical analysis and cultural history, Tell Me Whystands alone among Beatle… read more

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14. Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s

By: Tom Doyle

3.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon--the only McCartney b… read more

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15. Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation

By: Philip Norman

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Updated to include Paul McCartney's knighting and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Ph… read more

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Cover of One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig  Brown

16. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By: Craig Brown

4.26

Format: 642 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more

Similar categories in Craig Brown's One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time book and Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Alan Partridge: Big Beacon by Alan Partridge

17. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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Cover of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans by Kenneth Womack

18. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

19. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson

20. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By: Kerry Hudson

4.15

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."

-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Cover of The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73 by Allan Kozinn

21. The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73

By: Allan Kozinn

4.46

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1: 1969-73 captures t… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles by Ken McNab

22. And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles

By: Ken McNab

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for t… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles by Kenneth Womack

23. Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles

By: Kenneth Womack

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, r… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. All We Are Saying

By: David Sheff

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert by David J. Nutt

25. Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

By: David J. Nutt

4.43

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty year… read more

Similar categories in David J. Nutt's Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert book and Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

  • nonfiction
Cover of Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden

26. Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

By: Joe Goodden

4.23

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Who gave the drugs to the Beatles? I didn’t invent those things. I bought it from someone who got … read more

Similar categories in Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs book and Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life by Kenneth Womack

27. John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life

By: Kenneth Womack

4.28

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life traces the powerful, life-affirming story of the forme… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim  Marshall

28. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

By: Tim Marshall

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War book and Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne

29. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup

By: David Browne

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed mus… read more

Similar categories in David Browne's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup book and Joe Goodden's Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche by John Higgs

30. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By: John Higgs

4.15

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

Cover of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo

31. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

21 Top history books like Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden

Transform Your Habits

Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles: The Biography

Bob Spitz

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress

Michael Braun

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Jonathan Gould

4.19

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14 Top audiobook books like The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73 by Allan Kozinn

Transform Your Habits

Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

Mark Lewisohn

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Paul McCartney: The Life

Philip Norman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

3.80

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