In early 1963 a music writer and publisher, Sean O’Mahony, (who already published a magazine about the music scene called Beat Instrumental) heard Please Please Me and asked Brian Epstein if he could publish a magazine devoted to the Beatles.
It was revived in 1976, and ceased publication in 2003. It was first published in August 1963 and continued for 77 editions until it stopped publication after the December 1969 edition. The Beatles Book (also known as Beatles Monthly) was a fanzine dedicated to the English rock band the Beatles, founded in 1963.