A new book on The Beatles? Count me in!

Ian Leslie’s book ‘John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs’ provides our favourite Beatles music with analysis so deep it is worthy of venturing into a quiet room to enjoy it fully.

If you are the most ardent of Beatles fans – one who finds each discussion on the Fab Four too short! – then this is a delightful read.

Leslie holds each song up to the light, establishing its source and uncovering its inspiration. Instrumentation, syntax and phrasing are also thoroughly scrutinised, and celebrated. The research undertaken manages to leap from the page (it’s fairly heavy, so it’s not an energetic leap) but the historical context and detail make the tome worth strengthening your bookshelves for.

While The Beatles fans are an eternally hungry bunch who will lap up every chapter, others may find a few passages a little heady.

‘Help!’ or ‘Let It Be’ they may cry.

But those for whom Beatlemania is a way of life will ‘Twist and Shout’ saying ‘We Can Work It Out’, wishing ‘The Long and Winding Road’ was even longer.

You get my drift.

‘John and Paul: A Love Story In Songs’ by Ian Leslie was published by Faber and Faber in March.