This Boy: The Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney

This book examines the early years of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, looking at the forces that shaped Lennon-McCartney. Its account is set against 1950s England and includes both favorable and difficult aspects of their formative influences. It presents Lennon and McCartney as young people formed by those influences. Archival photographs and endnotes supplement the narrative and document the era described.