Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 080509458X
Combines lyrical prose and illustrations in an introduction to The Beatles, history's best-selling band, that details their ordinary childhoods and musical inspirations amid a backdrop of postwar England.
Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1473502470
Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, has produced the essential Beatles guide. Divided into four sections – People, Songs, Places and Broadcast and Cinema – it covers all elements of the band’s history and vividly brings to live every influence that shaped them. Illustrated with material from Hunter's remarkable private collection of artefacts and memorabilia, this is the definitive Beatles treasure.
Author : Philip Norman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0743253787
Updated to include Paul McCartney’s knighting and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band—a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought completely up to date, this epic tale charts the rise of four scruffy Liverpool lads from their wild, often comical early days to the astonishing heights of Beatlemania, from the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism to the band's acrimonious split. It also describes their struggle to escape the smothering Beatles’ legacy and the tragic deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Witty, insightful, and moving, Shout! is essential reading not just for Beatles fans but for anyone with an interest in pop music.
Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802735657
Fifty years after the British invasion began, Martin Sandler explores The Beatles' long-lasting impact on the world
Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062207679
An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism “This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today.
Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804139342
Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Ten years in the making, Tune In takes the Beatles from before their childhoods through the final hour of 1962—when, with breakthrough success just days away, they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of fame and celebrity. They’ve one hit record ("Love Me Do") behind them and the next ("Please Please Me") primed for release, their first album session is booked, and America is clear on the horizon. This is the lesser-known Beatles story—the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg—and in many respects the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. Here is the complete and true account of their family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their infatuation with American music, here is the riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and nights in the Cavern Club, their laughs, larks and adventures when they could move about freely, before fame closed in. For those who’ve never read a Beatles book before, this is the place to discover the young men behind the icons. For those who think they know John, Paul, George, and Ringo, it’s time to press the Reset button and tune into the real story, the lasting word.
Author : Gareth L. Pawlowski
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An account of the band's rise to fame, featuring many rare documents and photographs.
Author : People Magazine
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1547855037
From the Editors of PEOPLE comes a beautifully illustrated history of The Beatles that takes you from their boyhoods and cavern days in Liverpool, to the Beatlemania era that swept from the UK around the world, to the Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road years that pushed the boundaries of pop music, and finally to the making of their last album, 1970's Let It Be. As 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' break-up, People offers a loving look back at John, Paul, George, and Ringo, their music, the moments, the movies, and their lasting impact on fans worldwide
Author : Geoff Edgers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101078278
Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was...? book. Readers will learn about their childhoods in Liverpool, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!
Author : Jonathan Melville
Publisher : Arena Sport
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781913538149
A fantastic pocket-guide to The Beatles for superfans and casual fans alike.
