. . . "But in 1600 pages, Lewisohn is able to immerse the reader in 1962 and see it as the real Annus mirabilis for the Beatles, the year that made everything they were to become possible and the year that included numerous mind-bending coincidences without which it is quite possible that no one outside of Liverpool and Hamburg would have heard of them.One of the great fears in reviewing a work such as t" .