Question: The Compleat Beatles is a reference to a book by what author?
Context: Eliza Smith (d. 1732?)  was one of the most popular female 18th-century cookbook writers.  Unlike other popular woman cookbook authors whose books overlapped with hers, such as Hannah Glasse, nothing seems to be known about her personal life beyond the fact that she was one of the first popular female cookbook authors.  Her one book, "The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion" (London: J. Pemberton, 1727), went through 18 editions in Britain and in 1742 Smith became the first cookbook author published in colonial America.  Prior to her death, the name published in her book was E___ S____.  After her death it was published as E. Smith.  She was a housekeeper for thirty years: "for the Space of Thirty Years and upwards...I have been constantly employed in fashionable and noble Families." The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to "The Complete Angler") is a book by Izaak Walton.  It was first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot of St Dunstan-in-the-West, London. The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of the Beatles, Their Million-dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise and Fall (ISBN  ) is a rock history book by Richard DiLello, published in 1973 by Playboy Press, and reprinted in 1981 and 2005.  "The Longest Cocktail Party" is one man's account of the history of the Beatles' company Apple Corps, the break-up of the Beatles, and the beginning of their solo careers.  The title is a reference to the press office's habit of entertaining members of the media, and the company's potential business partners, with expensive drinks, luncheons and perks – which ultimately led to a financial and spiritual hangover, as did the unrealised potential of the company. Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour that Changed the World is a 2003 memoir by Larry Kane.  It accounts his experience as the only American reporter to travel with The Beatles' entourage in their 1964 and 1965 tours of The United States and Canada, at the height of Beatlemania.  At the time the offer was given to him, Larry Kane was not himself a Beatles fan, so he wrote from the perspective of a journalist rather than a fan.  Kane was recognized by the band to be reliable, likable and professional, and he gained the trust and confidence of each individual.  As a direct result of this trust, Kane was given access to areas of The Beatles' psyches which other newsmen were not admitted to.  At one point it tells the story of how The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was courting Kane; oblivious to the whole situation, and as a result, Kane unknowingly led Epstein on.  The book comes with a companion CD which contains interviews with The Beatles and commentary from the author looking back on the events from his current perspective. Patrick Montgomery is an American documentary producer/director and film and photo archivist.  He has specialized in making films using archival materials, most notably "The Man You Loved to Hate" (1979) about the legendary actor/director Erich Von Stroheim and "The Compleat Beatles" (1982) a two-hour documentary about the rise and fall of the world's most famous rock group.  He also founded and ran Archive Films/Archive Photos, the largest independent commercial film and photo archive in the U.S. until its acquisition by The Image Bank, a division of Eastman Kodak, in 1997. The Compleat Beatles, released in 1982, is a two-hour documentary chronicling the career of the Beatles.  Although it has since been supplanted by the longer and more in-depth documentary "Beatles Anthology", "The Compleat Beatles" was for many years largely regarded as the definitive film about the Beatles.  The word "" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the intentional misspelling of "Beetles" and a reference to the famous book on fishing, "The Compleat Angler". The Compleat Al is a mockumentary about the life of "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his birth in 1959, to 1985.  It was partially written by Yankovic and directed by Jay Levey.  An abbreviated version premiered on August 7, 1985 on the Showtime network before the full film was released on video on September 25, 1985.  The title of the film is a parody from the 1982 documentary "The Compleat Beatles". Paul McKenna Fargis (born 1939) is an American publisher, editor and author.  In 1978, he founded The Stonesong Press, Inc., a company that developed book projects from the initial concept through final manuscript, printer-ready materials or printed and bound books delivered to a participating publisher.  Stonesong was the first company to cooperatively develop major popular reference books with well-known institutions and brand names, including Harvard University Medical School, The Library of Congress, The American Pharmaceutical Association, Lands End, ESPN, The American Film Institute, National Geographic and others.  Several of the Stonesong reference titles won Notable Book Awards and Best Reference recognition from the American Library Association and others.  Mr. Fargis edited and produced more than a dozen reference works with The New York Public Library, the best known being four editions of The New York Public Library Desk Reference. Alan W. Pollack is a musicologist.  He is best known for having musically analysed every Beatles song released.  He started the task in 1989 and finished in 2000, with 187 original songs and 25 cover songs.  The analyses have come to be known as the "Notes on ..." series, as each is entitled "Notes on 'Love Me Do'", "Notes on 'Help! '" and so on.  The notes were released weekly, usually on Wednesdays, on the rec.music.beatles usenet group.  Pollack's individual song analyses and comments on unifying themes in the Beatles' work were later incorporated by musicologist Walter Everett in his two-volume study "The Beatles as Musicians".  The "Notes on …" series is also among the "Recommended Resources" in author and critic Kenneth Womack's 2014 book "The Beatles Encyclopedia". A reference work is a book or periodical (or its electronic equivalent) to which one can refer for information.  The information is intended to be found quickly when needed.  Reference works are usually "referred" to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end.  The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts.  Many reference works are compiled by a team of contributors whose work is coordinated by one or more editors rather than by an individual author.  Indices are commonly provided in many types of reference work.  Updated editions are usually published as needed, in some cases annually (e.g. "Whitaker's Almanack", "Who's Who").  Reference works include dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, almanacs, bibliographies, and catalogs (e.g. catalogs of libraries, museums or the works of individual artists).  Many reference works are available in electronic form and can be obtained as application software, CD-ROMs, DVDs, or online through the Internet.
Answer: Izaak Walton