LONDON -- The three surviving members of the Beatles have come together once again to write the definitive account of life in the world's most famous band, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr spent six years working on the book, entitled "Beatles Anthology," according to the Sunday Telegraph.The 360-page book will be published in Britain and the United States this autumn and will cost about 50 pounds ($80), raising about 1 billion pounds ($1.60 billion), the paper added. There are also said to be plans to translate it into dozens of languages.
The money will be split equally among the three musicians and Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, the fourth Beatle who was shot dead in New York in 1980, even though she has not been actively involved in the project.
The paper said the book would contain previously unpublished photographs, as well as new information about the band's split in April 1970.
The paper also said the book would reveal that the three surviving Beatles rejected an offer of $175 million in 1996 to play 17 concerts in the United States, Germany and Japan.