When They Were Boys The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top

"Kirkus Reviews""A spirited jump down the rabbit hole to the early years of what would become the Beatles, from TV news anchor and Beatles chronicler Kane ("Lennon Revealed", 2005, etc.)...A shimmering...report that should fill in many of the cracks in readers' knowledge of pop-music history." "Publishers Weekly""Kane ("Ticket to Ride"), a longtime Philadelphia journalist and author who covered the Beatles' first tour in the U.S. in 1964 and subsequent tours, works by mosaic in piecing together the shards of "the boys' " early stories in Liverpool... Many roiling, conflicting voices are brought together.""Library Journal""This reexamination of the Beatles' teenage years, which focuses not on the band members themselves but rather on those who nurtured and influenced them through their pivotal first few years together, will inform popular-music scholars and delight fans.""The Christian Science Monitor""Larry Kane was the only broadcast journalist to travel with the Beatles on their triumphant 1964 and '65 North American tours. He chronicled those heady experiences in his 2003 book, "Ticket to Ride." Now he's back with "When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles' Rise to the Top". Combining the results of some deep digging and revealing interviews with those who knew them best, Kane unearths fascinating details from the earliest days of the boys' growing up in hardscrabble Liverpool in the 1950s to the eve of their world conquest in 1964."Denny Somach, author of "Get The Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World " and well-known rock historian"The book is excellent.....Larry has gotten into nooks and crannies of Beatles history that other books have scarcely touched......"When They Were Boys" completes a fantastic trilogy."Chris Carter, Breakfast with the Beatles - Sirius/Xm Radio -KLOS Radio Los Angeles ."..is there anything left to learn about the Beatles? Well, if you happen