Lewisohn described the book as "predominately. The Beatles: All These Years: Volume One – Tune In was published on 19 October 2013 the abridged American edition reduced the page count from 1,728 to 944. Other material was drawn from the raw transcripts of Brian Epstein's A Cellarful of Noise and Epstein's personal diaries, schedules and business records. He consulted many people who had never been interviewed before and employed methods "rooted in a psychotherapists' technique" to help them recover lost memories. In addition to drawing upon his previous research, Lewisohn devoted six years to researching the first volume in the book. At the time, it was expected that the books would be finished by 2017. A year later, he was given a £1.2 million advance to write a "definitive" three-part Beatles biography series for the publisher Little, Brown. He began formulating plans for a project of similar scope in 2003. He had expressed a view that there was an oversaturation of Beatles biographies, but in the early 2000s, his feelings changed, as he began to feel that no book had approached the depth or breadth of other serious biographies, such as Robert A. Mark Lewisohn previously wrote six Beatles reference books throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. I felt this was a subject that deserved to be explored more comprehensively, more accurately, with greater understanding. I wasn't happy with the standard of Beatles literature out there.
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