Beatles 101

Author : Vikki Reilly
Publisher : Polaris
ISBN 13 : 1913538060
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles 101 written by Vikki Reilly and published by Polaris. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of all things Fab Four, from their songs, albums, and films to their milestones, controversies, and more. The Beatles are not only a rock ‘n’ roll group, but a social and cultural phenomenon that have captivated music fans for decades. For many, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr changed everything. This guide distils their amazing story into 101 informative and entertaining chapters, taking you from their rough and ready early Liverpool days through their world-shattering success in sound, stage and screen, to an afterlife that could never have been predicted when they first started out. Here, you’ll find facts and figures about their chartbusting songs, albums and films, meet the people that helped them along the way, and visit milestones and controversies such as their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, meeting Elvis Presley, John Lennon’s “Bigger than Jesus” comments, experimenting with drugs and the avant-garde, and starting up Apple. The Beatles 101 is a perfect introduction for new fans, a refresher for superfans, and ideal reading for quizmasters everywhere.

Author : Jeff Gold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584234883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Essential Rock Records written by Jeff Gold and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind rockmusics most famous record covers as told by some of music business' most profilic rockstars.

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Publisher : Four Ninety-Eight Productions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay written by and published by Four Ninety-Eight Productions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781250800145
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 150 Glimpses of the Beatles written by Craig Brown and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Mills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501346644
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles and Fandom written by Richard Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, death and nostalgia are among the impulses driving Beatles fandom: the metaphorical death of the Beatles after their break-up in 1970 has fueled the progressive nostalgia of fan conventions for 48 years; the death of John Lennon and George Harrison has added pathos and drama to the Beatles' story; Beatles Monthly predicated on the Beatles' good looks and the letters page was a forum for euphemistically expressed sexuality. The Beatles and Fandom is the first book to discuss these fan subcultures. It combines academic theory on fandom with compelling original research material to tell an alternative history of the Beatles phenomenon: a fans' history of the Beatles that runs concurrently with the popular story we all know.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1919 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam Pearson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909143952
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beatles Quiz Book written by Adam Pearson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a fan of The Beatles? Have you followed the amazing Beatles story from the early days of the band through to individual chart success? Do you know all there is to know about the fab four? If so, what better way to test your knowledge than with the 500 questions in this quiz book, each one designed to find out how much you can recall about the history of The Beatles. This book covers the phenomenal success of the early years through to the band members' individual careers, relationships, families and beyond. The Beatles Quiz Book is packed with information about John, Paul, George and Ringo, including questions on many of their unforgettable hits, bestselling albums, song lyrics and much more. This quiz book is a must-have for anyone who likes the Beatles whether you are new to their music or are a lifelong fan. This tribute will appeal to fans of all ages and anyone interested in finding out about one of the most successful UK bands of all time.

Author : Richard Buskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989255523
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatles 101 written by Richard Buskin and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatles 101 is your need-to-know-guide regarding the most successful group in the history of popular music, covering everything from a Liverpool basement to a London rooftop, leather gear to psychedelic garb, "yeah, yeah, yeah" to "na na na na-na na na", while also taking you inside the recording studio via interviews with The Beatles' major musical collaborators.

Author : John J. Sheinbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659338X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Music written by John J. Sheinbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original—and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.

Author : Jack Goldstein
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1782342850
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts About The Beatles written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you the world's biggest Beatles fan? Do you know everything there is to know about the Fab Four? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your favourite band – do you know all of them? Test yourself and your friends with these handily-packaged facts easily organised into categories for maximum enjoyment. Sections include their music, individual members, and some crazy facts about the band! Whether you'd like to stroll down Penny Lane, walk across Abbey Road, or visit Strawberry Fields, this fantastic eBook is full of great fun facts for you.