This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, reconstructing for the first time the events of 1969, the year that saw the band reach new highs of musical creativity and new lows of internal strife. From here emerged the disharmony of Let It Be and the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world.

In Sixty Degrees North, the author travels along the 60th parallel, which passes through Shetland, where he was raised, and through Finland, Sweden. Norway, Greenland, Canada, Russia and Alaska, observing each land, and reflecting on his own life and recent loss.