Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties - Softcover

MacDonald, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805042458 ISBN 13: 9780805042450

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1995

Synopsis

'No book has taken us closer to the music of the Beatles' Tony Parsons 'Consistently brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES 'Essential' Q The Beatles achievement was so dazzling, so extraordinary, that few have questioned it. Agreement that they were far and away the best pop group ever is all but universal. And nowhere is the spirit of the Sixties - both in its soaring optimism and its drug-spirited introspection - more perfectly expressed than in the Beatles' music. Taking all the elements which combined to create each song as it was captured on vinyl - the songwriting process, the stimuli of contemporary pop hits and events, the evolving input from each of the Four, the brilliant innovations pulled off in the studio and, ultimately, the twisting grip of psychedelic drugs - the Beatles are pinpointed, record by record, in precise and fascinating detail against the backdrop of that vibrant era.

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Review:

"MacDonald's inspired critique has become the work against which all other Beatles books are measured."--"Observer" "Arguably the most indispensable Beatles book ever published has just become more indispensable."--"Uncut" "A triumph -- compelling, seductive, delightful."--Nick Hornby

Book Description:

A great critical and commercial success in hardback, this is the ultimate Beatles Book; the ultimate book about the Sixties. 'If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of the Beatles' Aaron Copland 'The finest piece of Fabs scholarship ever published' MOJO

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0805042458
• ISBN 13: 9780805042450
• Binding: Paperback