Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,41 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 : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,85 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 : Philip Norman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 38,94 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 : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 13,92 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 : Geoff Edgers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,81 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 : Gareth L. Pawlowski
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An account of the band's rise to fame, featuring many rare documents and photographs.
Author : Bob Spitz
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316031674
The definitive biography of The Beatles, hailed as "irresistible" by the New York Times, "riveting" by the Boston Globe, and "masterful" by Time. As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving -- the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe and the jealousy, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, and the magic to never be repeated. In this vast, revelatory, exuberantly acclaimed, and bestselling book, Bob Spitz has written the biography for which Beatles fans have long waited.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451207357
The national bestseller that Newsday called “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group,” from the author of All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the group’s members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs—from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Includes 32 pages of rare and revealing photos A Literary Guild® Alternate Selection
Author : Erin Torkelson Weber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476624704
Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history and the story of how the Beatles' mythology continues to be told has been largely ignored. This book examines the band's historiography, exploring the four major narratives that have developed over time: The semi-whitewashed "Fab Four" account, the acrimonious breakup-era Lennon Remembers version, the biased "Shout!" narrative in the wake of John Lennon's murder, and the current Mark Lewisohn orthodoxy. Drawing on the most influential primary and secondary sources, Beatles history is analyzed using historical methods.
Author : Jonathan Melville
Publisher : Arena Sport
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781913538149
A fantastic pocket-guide to The Beatles for superfans and casual fans alike.
