The Beatles Literary Anthology
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0859653153 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Beatles: Literary Anthology recounts the group's mercurial rise from the British Merseybeat scene; the "British invasion" that made them iconic figures in the USA; the experimentation with song structure and sound-recording technique that re-defined pop music forever; their embracing of psychedelic drugs, hippie utopianism and pacifism, amidst the social changes of the mid-to-late 1960s; the band's acrimonious split, and the disparate, sometimes tragic post-Beatles paths followed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The strange extremes of a ca
Disappointed Kindle Customer I was looking forward to recieving this book from Amazon. After reading June Skinner's 'Read The Beatles' which I enjoyed very much, I was anticipating another even larger compilation of writings on the Beatles that spanned their career. The key here is, "their career" not John Lennon's. What I actually found were two things that I didn't enjoy. One was the over abundance of articles that the compiler uncovered that were about John Lennon. Not any of the others. Just John. While I love John and find him brilliant and interesting, with a title like "The Beatles" Literary Anthology', I was h. This Gets a Rave Review, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! This is a book of extraordinarily high caliber. Like the Beatle book by Mojo, this one includes a myriad of magazine articles spanning the Beatles' careers as well as musical analyses, comprehensive biographies and analytical dissections of each Beatle.One drawback the book has are some inaccuracies, e.g. that George Harrison did not contribute in a musically significant way until 1969 with the release of the Abbey Road album. That just isn't true. George Harrison was a gifted guitarist and extraordinary lyricist who had been writing songs for years prior to 1969! Just LISTEN to the 1966 s. Essential to any Beatles library Joel Bocko Obviously this book should be picked up by any hardcore Beatles fan, but it might be even more essential if you're just a casual Beatlemaniac. Why? Because it contains excerpts from the vast volume of writing on the Fab 4 which you'll probably just dip a toe in otherwise. This anthology compiles magazine articles, both contemporary and retrospective, excerpts from biographies and autobiographies, analysis of music, "I was there" recollections, and dissections of the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon. The last category is often the weakest, since it tends to combines pompous extrapolation wi
The book brims with over 40 years of interviews, articles, personal accounts, reviews and essays, deftly edited and arranged to contextualize each stage of the band’s evolution and organize an otherwise fragmented and disparate collection into a whole much larger than its parts. From pre-Beatles art school days to Lennon’s assassination and beyond, the book is loosely chronological but shaped by a nicely intuitive arrangement by association, so that George Martin’s account of the production process of "Sergeant Pepper" (and his dismissal of the idea that the album contains hidden drug references) is followed by an Alan Aldridge interview of Paul McCartney about the Beatles’ psychedelic-era songs. All rights reserved. Happily, Evans, editor of this outstandin