Drawing on archive footage, family photo albums, home movies and new interviews (with, among many others, Astrid Kirchherr, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Phil Spector, Terry Gilliam, Jackie Stewart, Pattie Boyd and Olivia Harrison), it covers a fascinating life from growing up in a Liverpool two-up-two-down back-to-back terrace house to living in a remarkable mansion in the home counties. The heady decade with the Beatles is well covered and his remarkable contribution as a musician to the band is properly noted. But his subsequent career as a solo artist, movie impresario and philanthropist is treated in equal depth, and a portrait emerges of a complex, deeply divided, self-questioning man torn between, or seeking to reconcile, the equally seductive demands of the spirit and the harsh material world. I was left with a greater understanding and appreciation of his work. [Guardian]