Kenneth Womack brings the Beatles' story vividly to life in Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition. In this updated second edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical debt to African-American Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.