Music was my first love. BUT, reading was my second. I have trouble now deciding what to read. I walk into bookstores and im just overwhelmed. I don't know what is good anymore. And then when I read its like...I want to listen to something while I read and then I get distracted by whats playing and it goes ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND.....LOL
I love IKEA, I bought a ton of the same book shelves you have back in the 90's and I still use them all throughout my house. They're great. Unfortunately, the closest IKEA to me if in Pittsburgh and I live in the Cleveland area.
Great collection of Beatle books! Do you have any of Bruce Spizer's books. I am thinking that you must have some of them. They are excellent books. I have purchased them as they were released. He is still going with the books! I remember buying and reading his first one on VJ Records (which used to be here in Chicago). It was really fascinating to me and quite detailed. It is truly amazing on the amount of Beatle books there are - and there is no end to them every year. So many people come up with different angles to cover.
Fun! As you know, I was rearranging my Beatles shelves this week, too. 'Tis the season! I sold about 11 boxes of Beatles books to a fellow forum member about ten years ago, so slightly less shelf space needed these days. Although, I've been getting into the little hardbacks being published in the Netherlands about LP and single pressings from every corner of the world. Fun to see the designs! Seeing your books again up close reminds me of so many great books that I loved reading and using for research. I missed most of the Genesis volumes, but I did get Mike McCartney's book. It's amazing. And I loved the new McCartney Legacy book! Thanks :)
Your video reminded me of all of the Beatles books I read and used to own. The one I kept (I saw it on your shelf) was the Beatles pop-up book because my parents brought it back from England.
I have Expedit and Kallax shelving. My milk crates just wouldn't hold the collection anymore.... A lot of people around here went to Ikea for their cheap breakfast's... LOL .... Beatles, bah humbug. Now books on the other hand I love. I used to collect 1st edition hard covers, my max amount I'd spend on one was 500. It was quite the collection. I had to sell it a long time ago when I ran into some financial difficulties. You being from California would be very familiar with a writer I had all of his books in first edition even his first book "A Cup of Gold". That was John Steinbeck. I dealt with rare book dealers from all over the world. I love the smell of old books too. They smell so academic. LOL ... Cheers Mazzy.
@@BobbyGass5 Bobby, I had a friend who started collecting Steinbeck 1st editions in the mid-1970s... unfortunately, I never asked if he still had them once he got married and had kids.
@@revkarl Mid 70s was a good time to collect, even some book sellers had no idea the value of some of the books on their shelves. I scored a second edition before publication of the Grapes of Wrath in a bookstore downtown for $5. A couple of years ago I decided to price some of the books I sold 4 decades ago and couldn't believe how much the prices went up. For instance the cheapest Steinbeck in my day was East of Eden and I paid $10 for my copies, I had 3 of them but now the same book is going for 600 and up. I stopped investigating the book prices shortly after because it was just too painful. LOL... Whey even the kids book the Red Pony I had all 3 stares of the first edition. It was quite the collection. For Steinbeck my main competition for his books was a fellow from Japan. He'd fly around the world visiting bookstores looking for Steinbeck. He told my rare book dealer Stephen Temple that Toronto used to be a real good town for picking up rare Steinbeck books but for some reason the availability of Steinbeck's books have become scarce in Toronto. That's when my book dealer told him about me scouring the shelves in Toronto for Steinbeck. When I sold my collection to a dealer the Japanese guy actually bought a bunch of them. It was a great pastime, I thoroughly enjoyed the collecting of those musty old tomes.... Cheers Rev.
Hey Mazzy.. Enjoyed that. I have collected every Genesis book until recently along with some great Taschen editions and similar. Storage and display is a real issue due to their large, unconventional sizing. No Ikea in little old New Zealand.
Gee Mazzy, you must have every book on The Beatles and Beatle related ever published. I have yours and maybe 10 or 15 more. That's an amazing collection of Beatle literature.
I had to get rid of over fifty years of book collecting when I moved to Mexico. I had a small interview book that was given to me by a orange-robed Krishna outside of the Empire State Building back in the late '70s. I did keep the Bruce Spizer reference books on The Beatles' record labels, though.
Love your collection...I didn't see "Growing Up With The Beatles " by Ron Schaumberg or Roy Carr and Tony Tyler's "The Beatles: An Illustrated Record"....I'll still stick by the latters review of "Ram".....Something about it "showcasing Macca's long drawn out yearning for cucumber sandwiches at the local rotary club..."....Love your channel
28 years ago Ikea opened here in Chicago. All the rage was to get their “Swedish Meatballs”. My very young daughter bit into one and lost her very first tooth. Cried her eyes out. The tears quickly turned into laughter. Only good memory I have of Ikea. I dread going there these days
Hi Mazzy , You will read about the first time my late husband met John Lennon if you have the book "John Lennon" by Alan Clayson. If you Google "Google books John Lennon Alan Clayson Brian de Courcy" you should be able to read the paragraph online. It is described as a "laddish comment" about beìng impressed with Brian's handshake... but now it would be described as very un-PC! This occured at one of the four Beatles concerts in 1964 backstage at Melbourne's Festival Hall (aka The Stadium). 👱♀️❤
Great library of books! I am reading the McCartney Legacy book by Allen Kozinn Good book as he writes about the recording sessions Most books on MCartney are about things you already know but this book is different!!
the annie leibovitz book of lennon photos that you dropped (you apologize to audience when you do so whereas i undoubtedly would lose all control of my faculties) is one of my most sought after books. i never knew the marsh book on 2nd album existed but i i understand his point of view. the photo book of lennon in japan is one of 250 others i've never seen before and want to read and own there are 250 others that i have no use for. ("david b. noebel" is good as an epithet used when a beatle book is dropped: nothing more). you don't need to reign in beatle appreciation for all 4 members ever. thanks for schooling me on beatle books.
OK not bad but I didnt see Kevin Barry's BEATLEBONE ....an imagining of John Lennons trip to the island he bought and briefly visited off the coast of Ireland.
Amazing collection. Am I right in thinking that the Beatles only made two live appearances on American television: 2/9/64 (New York) and 2/23/64 (Miami Beach)?
I stand corrected. Actually, Norm, the Miami show (Deauville Hotel) aired on 2/16. Their third Sullivan appearance on 2/23 was pre-recorded in New York on 2/9 earlier in the afternoon, before the live show at 8:00 PM. Those songs were then aired on their last Sullivan appearance on 2/23. It's surprising, but I guess Epstein had an exclusive contract with Sullivan, and they became so big so fast that further live TV served no real purpose. I believed The Beatles did quite a few TV appearances in England before their success in the States. By contrast, The Rolling Stones made TV appearances beyond Ed Sullivan, even a local show like Clay Cole. @@mazzysmusic
At some point as I got older, I almost exclusively stopped reading fiction to the point where 98% of my reading is of non-fiction. I noticed James Patterson's The Last Days of John Lennon high up on your shelf. I bought an A+ paperback copy early this year rom thrift for 25 cents. I'm out side of Montreal and we had to significant power failures this year (rarer these days); one late winter , the other early spring...lasting 12 hours and 36 hours respectively. I couldn't spin records 😋so I read half during one headlamp sitting and finished it during the second. For anyone who hasn't read it, it's like a bullet point overview of John's various eras from when when he first met Paul up, through his Mai Pang "lost weekend" year (you referenced) and to his reunion with Yoko; with occasional flash forward chapters in the days leading up to his assassination. Did you bother to read it? With the knowledge from your extensive collection, any one line comments or caveats before I pass it on to a friend?
I had a Library of 10,000 books once. When I was DRAFTED in the ARMY the USO sent our 'Company: 24th Supply & Service' Weekly Boxes of NEW BOOKS for the service men, but no-one but I seemed to think it was valuable. So, I would reship the Books to my Home (parents) and my MOM would throw them out into a bad leaking storage building we had. ...... All gone by the time I got back - along with 1,000s of Albums - and - Equipment. :(
Massy, a little off-topic (as usual)... I've never seen the Remco Beatles dolls in your collection. Do you have them? I was only 5 when they came out, and my mother thought I was too young and they were too expensive (I think they were less than $2 each at the time.) She didn't let me have The Munsters set, either (Yes, still harboring nearly sixty years of bitterness!)
We’re about the same age. I’ve read a fraction of what you’re showing here. But the other day. Chas Newby passed away. I’m sure you have a story about him somewhere ?
One book I noticed on those shelves is hard to get and I haven't read it - - but I;m not saying which, else every fker and his dog will be raiding ebay and driving bidding up.
Loved this. I miss buying and reading books. Convenience has become the death of passion.
In my world, the interweb hasn't made books obsolete. Thank goodness
Congratulations for such an awesome library!
Cheers 🍸✌️
Beautiful Beatle library! And good to know about the IKEA shelves.
I've had my Billy bookcases for 30 years! Love my cd racks from IKEA too..
Great to see your Beatles book library. Fantastic collection. By the way, your book is on my shelves too. Cheers, Nelio.
Ohhh man.... This is beautiful. A personal paradise.
Incredible collection Mazzy. Nice work.
Beautiful collection!
great collection, using yours to reference my search for beatles books
Music was my first love. BUT, reading was my second. I have trouble now deciding what to read. I walk into bookstores and im just overwhelmed. I don't know what is good anymore. And then when I read its like...I want to listen to something while I read and then I get distracted by whats playing and it goes ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND.....LOL
I love IKEA, I bought a ton of the same book shelves you have back in the 90's and I still use them all throughout my house. They're great. Unfortunately, the closest IKEA to me if in Pittsburgh and I live in the Cleveland area.
It's great to see your music fan library! ❤ I have a few myself.
A few moments of gravity. A family saying when we drop things.
Great collection of Beatle books! Do you have any of Bruce Spizer's books. I am thinking that you must have some of them. They are excellent books. I have purchased them as they were released. He is still going with the books! I remember buying and reading his first one on VJ Records (which used to be here in Chicago). It was really fascinating to me and quite detailed. It is truly amazing on the amount of Beatle books there are - and there is no end to them every year. So many people come up with different angles to cover.
Fascinating collection. Love the brick! ❤
Just another brick on the shelf!!
The dialogue n your voice is so soothing . I enjoyed this video n that book shelf looks stellar
ASMr ASMR 😴🔈
Great collection!
I really recommend Craig Browns One, two, three, four. The Beatles in Time.
It’s extremely funny and brilliant.
Fun! As you know, I was rearranging my Beatles shelves this week, too. 'Tis the season! I sold about 11 boxes of Beatles books to a fellow forum member about ten years ago, so slightly less shelf space needed these days. Although, I've been getting into the little hardbacks being published in the Netherlands about LP and single pressings from every corner of the world. Fun to see the designs! Seeing your books again up close reminds me of so many great books that I loved reading and using for research. I missed most of the Genesis volumes, but I did get Mike McCartney's book. It's amazing. And I loved the new McCartney Legacy book! Thanks :)
What an awesome collection Mazzy! Thanks for sharing
Thank you You are welcome!!
Very cool collection, congrats! LIterally was at Ikea this AM too coincidentally and bought my first Kallax lol
"Jazzy Mazzy" great video my friend! 😊
The Avedon book is awesome
Really like that one quite a bit!
Impressive book collection
Thanks for the great video my friend
I've still got the first edition of Lennon's Spaniard in the Works.
❤ this. Blown away 🤯
Your video reminded me of all of the Beatles books I read and used to own. The one I kept (I saw it on your shelf) was the Beatles pop-up book because my parents brought it back from England.
You only kept the Pop Up ? Fun!!
I have Expedit and Kallax shelving. My milk crates just wouldn't hold the collection anymore.... A lot of people around here went to Ikea for their cheap breakfast's... LOL .... Beatles, bah humbug. Now books on the other hand I love. I used to collect 1st edition hard covers, my max amount I'd spend on one was 500. It was quite the collection. I had to sell it a long time ago when I ran into some financial difficulties. You being from California would be very familiar with a writer I had all of his books in first edition even his first book "A Cup of Gold". That was John Steinbeck. I dealt with rare book dealers from all over the world. I love the smell of old books too. They smell so academic. LOL ... Cheers Mazzy.
Yeah I’ve heard of Steinbeck 😏🤠😎🤓
@@mazzysmusic LOL
@@BobbyGass5 Bobby, I had a friend who started collecting Steinbeck 1st editions in the mid-1970s... unfortunately, I never asked if he still had them once he got married and had kids.
@@revkarl Mid 70s was a good time to collect, even some book sellers had no idea the value of some of the books on their shelves. I scored a second edition before publication of the Grapes of Wrath in a bookstore downtown for $5. A couple of years ago I decided to price some of the books I sold 4 decades ago and couldn't believe how much the prices went up. For instance the cheapest Steinbeck in my day was East of Eden and I paid $10 for my copies, I had 3 of them but now the same book is going for 600 and up. I stopped investigating the book prices shortly after because it was just too painful. LOL... Whey even the kids book the Red Pony I had all 3 stares of the first edition. It was quite the collection. For Steinbeck my main competition for his books was a fellow from Japan. He'd fly around the world visiting bookstores looking for Steinbeck. He told my rare book dealer Stephen Temple that Toronto used to be a real good town for picking up rare Steinbeck books but for some reason the availability of Steinbeck's books have become scarce in Toronto. That's when my book dealer told him about me scouring the shelves in Toronto for Steinbeck. When I sold my collection to a dealer the Japanese guy actually bought a bunch of them. It was a great pastime, I thoroughly enjoyed the collecting of those musty old tomes.... Cheers Rev.
Impressive collection. Read more books, guys!
Gonna have to track down a copy of your book Mazzy.
Hey Mazzy.. Enjoyed that. I have collected every Genesis book until recently along with some great Taschen editions and similar. Storage and display is a real issue due to their large, unconventional sizing. No Ikea in little old New Zealand.
Patti Boyd's autobiography is nice, and I enjoyed the book by their very first manager (Alan Williams or something like that?).
Gee Mazzy, you must have every book on The Beatles and Beatle related ever published. I have yours and maybe 10 or 15 more. That's an amazing collection of Beatle literature.
I had to get rid of over fifty years of book collecting when I moved to Mexico. I had a small interview book that was given to me by a orange-robed Krishna outside of the Empire State Building back in the late '70s. I did keep the Bruce Spizer reference books on The Beatles' record labels, though.
Love your collection...I didn't see "Growing Up With The Beatles " by Ron Schaumberg or Roy Carr and Tony Tyler's "The Beatles: An Illustrated Record"....I'll still stick by the latters review of "Ram".....Something about it "showcasing Macca's long drawn out yearning for cucumber sandwiches at the local rotary club..."....Love your channel
Thank you for watching and commenting . I have those downstairs where more of the oversized books are... Growing Up was one of the fun early ones.
Wow impressive collection
If you would advise on one on the beatles to cover mostly all , which one should i pick?
28 years ago Ikea opened here in Chicago. All the rage was to get their “Swedish Meatballs”. My very young daughter bit into one and lost her very first tooth. Cried her eyes out. The tears quickly turned into laughter.
Only good memory I have of Ikea. I dread going there these days
I bought three bags. Meatballs, Vegie and meatless balls :-)
Hi Mazzy , You will read about the first time my late husband met John Lennon if you have the book "John Lennon" by Alan Clayson. If you Google "Google books John Lennon Alan Clayson Brian de Courcy" you should be able to read the paragraph online. It is described as a "laddish comment" about beìng impressed with Brian's handshake... but now it would be described as very un-PC! This occured at one of the four Beatles concerts in 1964 backstage at Melbourne's Festival Hall (aka The Stadium).
👱♀️❤
I’ll look. I do have the book ✌🏼
Hope to see you at the Folklife Festival this weekend
Great library of books! I am reading the McCartney Legacy book by Allen Kozinn Good book as he writes about the recording sessions Most books on MCartney are about things you already know but this book is different!!
It’s good ✌🏼
Met Barry Miles at the 2006 International LSD Symposium in Basel, Switzerland. Nice guy.
Were you both trippin?
@@mazzysmusic Not at the time, but…
the annie leibovitz book of lennon photos that you dropped (you apologize to audience when you do so whereas i undoubtedly would lose all control of my faculties) is one of my most sought after books. i never knew the marsh book on 2nd album existed but i i understand his point of view. the photo book of lennon in japan is one of 250 others i've never seen before and want to read and own there are 250 others that i have no use for. ("david b. noebel" is good as an epithet used when a beatle book is dropped: nothing more). you don't need to reign in beatle appreciation for all 4 members ever. thanks for schooling me on beatle books.
Great! More !!!
Billy are good
OK not bad but I didnt see Kevin Barry's BEATLEBONE ....an imagining of John Lennons trip to the island he bought and briefly visited off the coast of Ireland.
Hey Mazzy. Question for you. What is a fish and finger pie? Sounds a bit slangy from back in the day. Thanks
Didn't you google it? When a boy sexually pleasures a girl with his fingers..... Northern UK slang I think.
Do you use a card catalog and the Dewey decimal system or just wing it ??? Just kidding. Great Beatle library.
Wings It!!!
Amazing collection. Am I right in thinking that the Beatles only made two live appearances on American television: 2/9/64 (New York) and 2/23/64 (Miami Beach)?
They were on Ed Sullivan three weeks in a row. But the third week was taped at the same time as the second shoe taping from Miami.
I stand corrected. Actually, Norm, the Miami show (Deauville Hotel) aired on 2/16. Their third Sullivan appearance on 2/23 was pre-recorded in New York on 2/9 earlier in the afternoon, before the live show at 8:00 PM. Those songs were then aired on their last Sullivan appearance on 2/23.
It's surprising, but I guess Epstein had an exclusive contract with Sullivan, and they became so big so fast that further live TV served no real purpose. I believed The Beatles did quite a few TV appearances in England before their success in the States. By contrast, The Rolling Stones made TV appearances beyond Ed Sullivan, even a local show like Clay Cole.
@@mazzysmusic
Wonderful collection there. Now nicely displayed. How come there's no dust in your house?
Ha. I dust but this helps a lot
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Hi.Have you read Craig Brown's book one two three four and/or Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche by John Higgs?
I have not!!
@@mazzysmusic I doubt if Mazzy would appreciate Craig Brown having fun at Yoke Onos reputation as an "artist" ....cruel but hilarious .
Maybe you should do a "whack-a-book" where you pull out random books!
What type of phono amp do you use? You use a Hanna moving coil cartridge? Thanks
Rega Aria
@@mazzysmusic What amp or receiver are you using Mazzy?
@@26Jorgeb Hegel h390
At some point as I got older, I almost exclusively stopped reading fiction to the point where 98% of my reading is of non-fiction. I noticed James Patterson's The Last Days of John Lennon high up on your shelf. I bought an A+ paperback copy early this year rom thrift for 25 cents. I'm out side of Montreal and we had to significant power failures this year (rarer these days); one late winter , the other early spring...lasting 12 hours and 36 hours respectively. I couldn't spin records 😋so I read half during one headlamp sitting and finished it during the second.
For anyone who hasn't read it, it's like a bullet point overview of John's various eras from when when he first met Paul up, through his Mai Pang "lost weekend" year (you referenced) and to his reunion with Yoko; with occasional flash forward chapters in the days leading up to his assassination.
Did you bother to read it?
With the knowledge from your extensive collection, any one line comments or caveats before I pass it on to a friend?
I had a Library of 10,000 books once. When I was DRAFTED in the ARMY the USO sent our 'Company: 24th Supply & Service' Weekly Boxes of NEW BOOKS for the service men, but no-one but I seemed to think it was valuable. So, I would reship the Books to my Home (parents) and my MOM would throw them out into a bad leaking storage building we had.
...... All gone by the time I got back - along with 1,000s of Albums - and - Equipment. :(
Massy, a little off-topic (as usual)... I've never seen the Remco Beatles dolls in your collection. Do you have them? I was only 5 when they came out, and my mother thought I was too young and they were too expensive (I think they were less than $2 each at the time.) She didn't let me have The Munsters set, either (Yes, still harboring nearly sixty years of bitterness!)
I have 151 beatles books but his collection is bigger.
Kallax sell more than double the Billy - the Kallax series is one of the top selling families in the IKEA store.
We’re about the same age. I’ve read a fraction of what you’re showing here. But the other day. Chas Newby passed away. I’m sure you have a story about him somewhere ?
I love to color of your shelving. I think white looks cheap.
Mazzy you are getting to Bugie Ahhh
Did you grab some Köttbullar at Ikea?
I did not!!
I wish you had shown the autographs.
Another time 🐿️🎸🥁
and i thought i had a lot of elvis books
What about the Beatle bubble gum cards, black and white set and color set?
I have those too. From my childhood!!
One book I noticed on those shelves is hard to get and I haven't read it - - but I;m not saying which, else every fker and his dog will be raiding ebay and driving bidding up.
Well hurry up and grab a copy 🤷🏻♂️
Crikey!
Useless info - "bonde" is Swedish for farmer. Greetings from the land of Allen keys and all that! :)
Well, I certainly didn’t name that line of IKEA storage cases. 🤷🏻♂️
@@mazzysmusic I didn't imply the video was useless info though, if it came off like that...
Oke, IKEA U.S.A looks exactly the same as IKEA Netherlands.