The Beatles Best

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062207678

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Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield Pdf

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 : 399 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476840512

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The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook by The Beatles Pdf

(Guitar Chord Songbook). This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by the Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography. Songs include: Across the Universe * All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Day Tripper * Dear Prudence * Drive My Car * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Helter Skelter * Hey Jude * I Saw Her Standing There * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * The Long and Winding Road * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * and more!

Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393338746

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The Beatles by Hunter Davies Pdf

The book that defines a band that defined a generation.

Author : Peter Brown,Steven Gaines
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0451207351

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The Love You Make by Peter Brown,Steven Gaines Pdf

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 : Geoff Edgers,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101078273

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Who Were the Beatles? by Geoff Edgers,Who HQ Pdf

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 : Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540004086

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The Beatles Sheet Music Collection by Beatles Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Over 100 timeless hits from the Fab Four in piano/vocal/guitar arrangements, including: Across the Universe * All My Loving * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Don't Let Me Down * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Let It Be * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * Ticket to Ride * Twist and Shout * When I'm Sixty-Four * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and more.

Author : The Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495074271

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First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on the Piano by The Beatles Pdf

(Easy Piano Personality). The First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on the Piano is a simply arranged, must-know collection of the Fab Four's greatest hits. Each arrangement includes chords and lyrics in an easy-to-read and play format for Beatles fans of all ages. Songs include: Across the Universe * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Day Tripper * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Michelle * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Penny Lane * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Twist and Shout * We Can Work It Out * Yesterday * and more.

Author : Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540035721

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The Beatles by Beatles Pdf

(Guitar Collection). 25 classic songs from the Fab Four are presented in lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams, making Beatles' music accessible to beginning guitarists just learning their craft. Songs include: Beautiful Dreamer * Come Together * Don't Let Me Down * Eleanor Rigby * Helter Skelter * I Saw Her Standing There * Let It Be * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Twist and Shout * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away * and more.

Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher : Crown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101903292

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Tune In by Mark Lewisohn Pdf

Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world’s leading Beatles authority – the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely always will be. Still, somehow, their music excites, their influence resonates, their fame sustains. New generations find and love them, and while many other great artists come and go, the Beatles are beyond eclipse. So . . . who really were these people, and just how did it all happen? 'The Beatles story' is everywhere. Told wrong from early on, rehashed in every possible way and routinely robbed of its context, this is a phenomenon in urgent need of a bright new approach. In his series All These Years, Mark Lewisohn – the world-recognized Beatles historian – presses the Refresh button to relate the entire story as it’s never been told or known before. Here is a full and accurate biography at last. It is certain to become the lasting word. Tune In is book one of three, exploring and explaining a period that is by very definition lesser-known: the formative pre-fame years, the teenage years, the Liverpool and Hamburg years – in many ways the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. The Beatles come together here in all their originality, attitude, style, speed, charisma, appeal, daring and honesty, the tools with which they’re about to reshape the world. It’s the Beatles in their own time, an amazing story of the ultimate rock band, a focused and colorful telling that builds and builds to leave four sharp lads from Liverpool on the very brink of a whole new kind of fame. Using impeccable research and resources, Tune In is a magisterial work, an independent biography that combines energy, clarity, objectivity, authority and insight. The text is anti-myth, tight and commanding – just like the Beatles themselves. Here is the Beatles story as it really was. Throw away what you think you know and start afresh.

Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0600637123

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The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn Pdf

One of the most important documentaries on rock music ever published, this is EMI Records' official diary-format history of every Beatles recording session. Now in paperback. Researched from hundreds of unreleased Abbey Road archive tapes, featuring thousands of previously unpublished studio documents and interviews with many of the key recording personnel. The book is filled with over 350 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations, including rare photos by Linda McCartney and the first facsimile reproductions of Abbey Road recording sheets, tape boxes, album sleeve roughs, memos, contracts, press releases and much more.

Author : Pete Shotton
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984-02-01
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0812880722

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The Beatles, Lennon, and Me by Pete Shotton Pdf

Biography of John Lennon told by his "best friend."

Author : Pete Best,Bill Harry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0747277621

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The Best Years of the Beatles by Pete Best,Bill Harry Pdf

Author : Richie Unterberger
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879308923

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The Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger Pdf

A survey of the significant body of recorded works by the Beatles that were not released includes discussions on an array of live concert performances, home demo recordings, studio outtakes, and more, in a chronologically arranged volume that includes coverage of unreleased video footage. Original.

Author : Philip Norman
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 0684830671

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Shout! by Philip Norman Pdf

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 : Craig Brown
Publisher : Picador
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250800145

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150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time "If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book.” —Alan Johnson, The Spectator Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the Fab Four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fashion and fine art, sexual politics and religion. When they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fresh off the plane from England, they provoked an epidemic of hoarse-throated fandom that continues to this day. Who better, then, to capture the Beatles phenomenon than Craig Brown—the inimitable author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret and master chronicler of the foibles and foppishness of British high society? This wide-ranging portrait of the four lads from Liverpool rivals the unique spectacle of the band itself by delving into a vast catalog of heretofore unexamined lore. When actress Eleanor Bron touched down at Heathrow with the Beatles, she thought that a flock of starlings had alighted on the roof of the terminal—only to discover that the birds were in fact young women screaming at the top of their lungs. One journalist, mistaken for Paul McCartney as he trailed the band in his car, found himself nearly crushed to death as fans climbed atop the vehicle and pressed their bodies against the windshield. Or what about the Baptist preacher who claimed that the Beatles synchronized their songs with the rhythm of an infant’s heartbeat so as to induce a hypnotic state in listeners? And just how many people have employed the services of a Canadian dentist who bought John Lennon’s tooth at auction, extracted its DNA, and now offers paternity tests to those hoping to sue his estate? 150 Glimpses of the Beatles is, above all, a distinctively kaleidoscopic examination of the Beatles’ effect on the world around them and the world they helped bring into being. Part anthropology and part memoir, and enriched by the recollections of everyone from Tom Hanks to Bruce Springsteen, this book is a humorous, elegiac, and at times madcap take on the Beatles’ role in the making of the sixties and of music as we know it.