Author : Mat Snow
Publisher :
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1937994260
A gift set containing four books which document each of the Beatles' solo career and life after the iconic rock group disbanded.
Author : Andrew Grant Jackson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 081088223X
As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com! More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their songs have been recorded and performed. Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves. But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest songs of The Beatles after they called it quits. Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs in each solo career and organizes them into fantasy albums they might have formed had the legendary group stayed together. This romp through the post–Beatles history of each artist delves into the circumstances behind the composition, recording, and reception of each work, offering a refreshing take on how spectacular much of The Beatles’ second act truly is. Jackson assesses the more than seventy albums and nine hundred songs the four collectively released, selecting the crème de la crème of their output. Still the Greatest brims with facts (release dates, writing and performing credits, and information about production techniques) and insightful analyses of the music and lyrics. In telling the stories behind the songs, Jackson recounts the remarkable influence the Post Fab Four continued to have long after the big split. Both a handy reference and an engrossing cover-to-cover read, Still the Greatest is an invaluable companion for those who thought it all ended with the 1970 album Let It Be.
Author : Chip Madinger
Publisher : 44 1 Productions Incorporated
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780615117249
Author :
Publisher : 498 Productions, LLC
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN :
The Beatles Solo on Apple Records" is the companion piece to Bruce Spizers critically acclaimed "The Beatles on Apple Records." This book details the solo records released by John, Paul, George and Ringo on theirown Apple label in America, starting with the December, 1968, release of Georges "Wonderwall Music" album and ending with the December, 1975, release of Georges single "This Guitar (Cant Keep From Crying)." All solo projects are covered, including all of the albums and singles released by John & Yoko and Paul McCartney & Wings, as well as classic albums such as "Imagine," "Band On The Run," "All Things Must Pass" and "Ringo." The book provides comple te session and chart information and shows all picture sleeves, album covers and label variations, along with many of the promotional posters, displays and trade magazine ads. The bookis hard cover and printed on heavy weight glossy paper. It has over 900 images (all in full color or original black & white) spread throughout the the books 358 pages.
Author : The Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476806721
(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Beautiful arrangements of 22 Beatles tunes, including: All My Loving * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Here, There and Everywhere * Hey Jude * If I Fell * In My Life * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * Michelle * Yesterday * and more.
Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,68 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 : The Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1458432866
(Guitar Solo). 31 of the Beatles' best arranged for solo classical guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes: Across the Universe * Blackbird * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Hey Jude * Michelle * Norwegian Wood * Something * Yesterday * and more.
Author : Beatles, The
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476812151
Collection of classical guitar music from John Lennon.
Author : The Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1458432742
(Guitar Book). This unique publication contains 52 favorite Beatles songs arranged exclusively for the guitar. It is designed to provide an accurate look into the lead and rhythm guitar styles of George Harrison and John Lennon. Instead of providing transcriptions of the guitars off the record, these arrangements use the musical elements of the bass, drums, keyboards and guitars all incorporated into one guitar so that they can be played alone or in a band. Written in tablature, this book also provides numbers, strums, accents and picking patterns for those who do not read music.
Author : Robert Rodriguez
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879309687
In the years following the 1960s, Beatles fans around the world were twice-stunned: in 1970, when their beloved group disbanded, and ten years later when the murder of John Lennon ended a decade of hope that somehow the Fab Four would reunite. Between those milestones were astounding highs and unfathomable lows. George Harrison's 1971 benefit for the suffering of Bangladesh showed the world the possibilities of rock's altruism, while Lennon asked the world to 'imagine' universal peace before sitting out half the decade to raise his son. Ringo Starr, the most overlooked Beatle, carved himself a surprising niche in film before launching a string of hit singles. And Paul McCartney, widely seen as the instigator of the breakup, became one of rock's most beloved performers, racking up record-breaking smashes that climaxed with a triumphant world tour in 1976. This book covers everything from their recording careers in the decade after the band's dissolution to the musicians they played with, the bands they influenced, the manifestations of latter-day Beatlemania, and the constant clamour for reunion expressed by fans and - sometimes - by the four themselves.
