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Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is perhaps my favorite Beatles connected book. Why is that? Because it provides such an interesting and lifelike perspective on the recording of The Beatles legendary albums such as 1966’s Revolver.

I love that the book is concentrated on what was happening within the studio rather than what John, Paul, George, & Ringo were doing personally as far as who they were dating and all of that kind of stuff. Comparatively other books like this are far too focused on the biography of The Beatles and not enough on the music that made them famous. It’s because of their songs that anyone is concerned about their biography.

The book isn’t entirely concerning The Beatles, it is more of a Geoff Emerick memoir (with a clear focus on his time with The Beatles) but if you think that that may make it not as interesting, I really do not think that is true. I really believe it helps make his stories about The Beatles seem more “real.”

In fact the book’s “realness” is one of the best things about it. I’ve read a ton of books on the band but most of them seem quite clinical in comparison. Like a bunch of trivia pieced together. With Here, There, and Everywhere I felt like I was really there at Abbey Road Studio in the ’60s. Sort of a fly on the wall, taking it all in.

This book provides a nice look into The Beatles as musicians. We get a glimpse of Paul working for hours in the studio to get his bass parts just right and we see George significantly improve his guitar playing talents through the decade.

Emerick was a very important part of the band’s sound throughout their psychedelic era. Incredibly on his initial full day as lead engineer he came up with concepts that helped make “Tomorrow Never Knows” sound so revolutionary.

If you’re interested in buying this book you aren’t stuck with buying it on old fashioned paper, you’ll also get it for your Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle yet then I advocate buying the 9.7″ Kindle DX because of it’s bigger size, it makes it more easy to read. If you live outside of the States, you will need to purchase a Global Wireless Kindle.

Of course just reading about The Beatles isn’t enough, you’ll also want to get The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set so you can easily follow along with Geoff Emerick’s stories with the right soundtrack.