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This book is utterly infuriating. I gave up on the 34 page introduction after only 4 pages. Boring or what? All the opinionated psychobabble the author pretentiously waffles on about just completely overlooks the fact that The Beatles wrote and recorded pop songs. Good pop songs. Melodic pop songs! None of them wrote or read music and all the diminished seventh’s, quavers, crotchets etc in the world would be of no interest or understanding to them. They wrote pop/rock songs and experimented and expanded the art using what was in their heads and transposing this into music. In the end I had to stop reading it. It is ok as a reference for some of the more interesting things, that is, factual rather than opinions and downright speculation. Also, highlighting every bad edit, balancing issues, sound quality, garbled words, and other general flaws started to get really tiresome. I read it up to Hard Days Night, but couldn’t stand any more. I would love to know if Paul McCartney read this rubbish. Read full review
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An excellent account of The Beatles music set in the context of the 60s. Every song is examined in the order in which they were recorded. There are many eye opening anecdotes such as when Yoko took one of George's chocolate digestives without asking, but also serious musical and social analysis - recommended!
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A fascinating insight into how each song came about and how it was recorded.
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