| Phys Descr |
xiii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-334) and index |
| Contents |
Prelude: "Thanks, Mo" -- Meet The Beatles (1962-1970) -- "Dear Prudence" (1968) -- "I call your name" (1957) -- Please please me (1963) -- The mystery inside of George -- "It won't be long" (1963) -- The importance of being Ringo -- The scream -- "Ticket to ride" (1965) -- "Think for yourself" (1965) -- Rubber Soul (1965) -- Instrumental break: 26 songs about The Beatles -- "Tomorrow never knows" (1966) -- Revolver (1966) -- "Strawberry fields forever" (1967) -- The cover of Sgt. Pepper (1967) -- Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (1967) -- "It's all too much" (1967) -- Magical mystery tour (1967) -- Beatles or Stones? -- The white album (1968) -- "Helter Skelter" (1968) -- "Something" (1969) vs. "My love" (1971) -- The cover of Abbey Road (1969) -- Turn me on, dead man -- The Beatles' last album (1970) -- "Maybe I'm amazed" (1970) -- "God" (1970) -- Paul is a concept by which we measure our pain -- When George sang "In my life" (1974) -- A toot and a snore in '74 (1974) -- Rock 'n' roll music (1976) -- "Silver horse" (1981) -- The ballad of eighties Beatles vs. nineties Beatles -- The end: sorry we hurt your field, mister |
| Summary |
"John, Paul, George, and Ringo remain the world's favorite thing. Yet every theory ever devised to explain why has failed. It wasn't their timing. It wasn't drugs. It wasn't that they were the voice of a generation. The vast majority of Beatles fans today weren't born when the records came out-- yet the allure of the music keeps on growing, nearly fifty years after the band split. The world keeps dreaming the Beatles, long after the Beatles themselves figured the dream was over. Our Beatles have outlasted theirs." -- Book jacket |
| Subject |
Beatles
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Beatles -- History
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Rock musicians -- England -- Biography
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| OCLC # |
972171450 |
| ISBN # |
0062207652 |
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9780062207654 |
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