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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
Ian Macdonald
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Description for Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
Paperback. As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. This book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 388.
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world.
Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records. Drawing on a unique resource of knowledge and experience to 'read' their 241 tracks - chronologically from their first amateur efforts in 1957 to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099526797
SKU
V9780099526797
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99-97
About Ian Macdonald
Ian MacDonald was born in 1948. A writer with many interests, he was Assistant Editor of the New Musical Express during 1972-5. He has also worked as a songwriter and record producer, and is the author of The New Shostakovich, The People's Music and The Beatles at No. 1.He died in 2003.
Reviews for Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
His essays are a brilliant summation of the cultural sea change that the Beatles benefitted from and helped to create, and it also contains a clear-headed and unsentimental review of every song they recorded.
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The masterpiece The Beatles deserved
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Paul Hanley
The Big Issue
The finest piece of fabs scholarship ever published
Mojo
The masterpiece The Beatles deserved
Max ... Read more