THE BEATLES Beatles Gear (2001 UK Revised Edition 256-page 12½ x 10 softback book by Andy Babuk which gives insights into the instruments from the people who know drawn from the authors firsthand interviews with Paul Ringo George Martin Yoko & hundreds of musicians who worked with them from their late 50s schoolyard skiffle days through the global Beatlemania of the 60s & the groups disbanding in 1970 this book features behind-the-scenes stories from instrument makers & sellers roadies engineers & other Beatles insiders along with memorabilia & hundreds of photographs—many previously unseen)