Paul McCartney Will Hate Their New Beatles Book (Almost as Much as He Hated Their Last One)

Forty-one years ago, they published the biggest Beatles biography of all time — The Love You Make, which spent three months in 1983 atop The New York Times best-seller list. The book would make its co-authors — former Circus magazine editor and author of 13 bestsellers Steven Gaines and one-time Brian Epstein protégé and Fab Four confidante Peter Brown — into the most famous Beatle-ologists on the planet.

Also, two of the most reviled, at least by some guy named Paul McCartney, who was said to have been so outraged by the tome’s gossipy reportage that he set his copy on fire.

As it happens, Gaines and Brown aren’t quite finished with The Beatles yet. Last month, after decades of steering clear of the subject, they released All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words, an oral history of the Mop Tops based on hundreds of hours of old taped…