Beatles Vs Stones

Author : John McMillian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451612389
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatles vs. Stones written by John McMillian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s an epic battle was waged between the two biggest bands in the world—the clean-cut, mop-topped Beatles and the badboy Rolling Stones. Both groups liked to maintain that they weren’t really “rivals”—that was just a media myth, they politely said—and yet they plainly competed for commercial success and aesthetic credibility. On both sides of the Atlantic, fans often aligned themselves with one group or the other. In Beatles vs. Stones, John McMillian gets to the truth behind the ultimate rock and roll debate. Painting an eye-opening portrait of a generation dragged into an ideological battle between Flower Power and New Left militance, McMillian reveals how the Beatles-Stones rivalry was created by music managers intent on engineering a moneymaking empire. He describes how the Beatles were marketed as cute and amiable, when in fact they came from hardscrabble backgrounds in Liverpool. By contrast, the Stones were cast as an edgy, dangerous group, even though they mostly hailed from the chic London suburbs. For many years, writers and historians have associated the Beatles with the gauzy idealism of the “good” sixties, placing the Stones as representatives of the dangerous and nihilistic “bad” sixties. Beatles vs. Stones explodes that split, ultimately revealing unseen realities about America’s most turbulent decade through its most potent personalities and its most unforgettable music.

Author : John McMillian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143915970X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatles Vs. Stones written by John McMillian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirited, insightful, and gracefully written, this is the definitive account of the friendship and rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones."

Author : Chris O'Dell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596755
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss O'Dell written by Chris O'Dell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRIS O’DELL WASN’T FAMOUS. SHE WASN’T EVEN ALMOST FAMOUS. BUT SHE WAS THERE. * She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be, and she sang in the “Hey Jude” chorus. * She lived with George Harrison and Pattie Boyd and unwittingly got involved in Pattie’s famous love story with Eric Clapton. * She’s the subject of Leon Russell’s “Pisces Apple Lady.” * She worked for the Rolling Stones on their infamous 1972 tour and did a drug run for Keith Richards. * She’s “the woman down the hall” in Joni Mitchell’s song “Coyote,” the “mystery woman” pictured on the Stones album Exile on Main Street, and the “Miss O’Dell” of George Harrison’s song. The remarkable, intimate story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions—to be part of rock royalty’s inner circle—Miss O’Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.

Author : Andy Babiuk
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879306625
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatles Gear written by Andy Babiuk and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the Beatles' use of instruments from 1956 through 1970, including photographs and discussion about Paul's 1963 Hofner 500/1 violin bass, John's Rickenbacker 325 12-string, and George's Gibson Les Paul.

Author : Fred Goodman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547896867
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allen Klein written by Fred Goodman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the heyday of rock & roll through the lens of Allen Klein, the business manager, producer, and gadfly who "broke up the Beatles" and showed the Rolling Stones how to become the pre-eminent dynasty in popular music.

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062207679
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming the Beatles written by Rob Sheffield and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ronnie Schneider
Publisher : Clb, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780998166315
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Our Heads written by Ronnie Schneider and published by Clb, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A college kid becomes tour manager for the Rolling Stones during their chaotic '65-'66 tours, starting a wild adventure that would include the Beatles and more. Ronnie Schneider also produced the mythical '69 Stones tour and the legendary Gimme Shelter. An all-access pass to rock's last great era; packed with rare artifacts to back it up.

Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0804179239
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones written by Rich Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway—privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Cohen’s chronicle of the band is informed by the rigorous views of a kid who grew up on the music and for whom the Stones will always be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band of all time.

Author : Jann Wenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140035810
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lennon Remembers written by Jann Wenner and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolling Stone interviews conducted in 1970 and published in 1971.

Author : Murry R. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031338035X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rolling Stones written by Murry R. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones—the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever. By 1964 the United States had been "invaded" by a number of British bands, led by the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were seen as more rebellious and rowdy than The Beatles—they were the "bad boys" as opposed to the "good boys"—and this reputation only served to enhance their popularity with their teenage fans. The Stones far outlasted the Beatles and all the other 60s-era British bands, however The Rolling Stones not only continued, but flourished, their tours drawing enormous crowds for decades. The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography chronicles the fascinating adventures of these Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and sheds light on what has allowed these music legends to enjoy such lifelong popularity and success.