The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four [2 Volumes]

"The entries are well-written and should be clearly understood by a general reading audience. The sheer amount of information contained between the covers is impressive and certainly helpful to anyone interested in, or researching, Beatles-related information." --ARBAonline

"Numerous Beatles books tell the group's story, or may focus on very specific periods in their relatively short but complex history. Now, all the major topics are included in one convenient place in The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four, the latest work by Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack. From A to Z (or Apple to Zapple), Womack provides succinct yet thorough entries for topics from songs to albums to significant people in the Beatles' story." --Something Else Reviews

"This well-researched and accessible resource is suitable for public and academic library music-reference and circulating collections." --Booklist

"This encyclopedia is crucial for any music library. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." --Choice

"This compendium of facts about the Beatles will serve as a useful resource for basic information about the band, its members, and the people around them and their influence on popular music and culture. There is no shortage of information on this subject, but it is sometimes difficult to verify the authority of a given source. For that reason, I recommend this book for inclusion in general reference collections as much for its factual content as for its bibliographic utility in recommending authoritative sources for further investigation on this multi-faceted, and seemingly endlessly revisited, topic." --Reference Reviews

"Everything Fab Four has been placed at our fingertips. As such, the content of these two volumes will simultaneously expedite our searches for this or that detail while also sending us back to Beatles books we have read or should read. It will enlarge considerably our conception of what the Beatles accomplished, just as it will strike us as practical, fun, and, most important of all, indispensable. Certain it is that fans and scholars of the Beatles will find themselves describing the feat that Kenneth Womack has achieved in compiling The Beatles Encyclopedia in adjectives such as these." --Popular Music and Society