The Beatles: A Musical Biography

by Mulligan, Kate Siobhan

• ISBN13: 9780313376863
• ISBN10: 0313376867
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

What makes a legend? The Beatles: A Musical Biography attempts to answer that question by taking an in-depth look at the band that changed pop music. Examining the events and ideas that influenced each album and many songs, the book seeks to explain what drove the Beatles to make music, as well as what drove the music itself.While the biography covers the musical history and achievements of the band, it also looks at what was happening in the lives of John, Paul, George, and Ringo during the Beatle years, exploring their personal drives and aspirations and their relationships with each other. Readers will come away from this book with a far better appreciation of the Lads from Liverpooland of what was really going on underneath those oh-so-controversial haircuts.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Timeline	p. xvii
Liverpudlian Childhoods	p. 1
Art School Dropout	p. 13
Rockin' the Casbah	p. 25
An Apprenticeship on the Reeperbahn	p. 37
As Big As Elvis	p. 51
Beatlemania!	p. 63
On Top of the World and High as a Kite	p. 77
Things Fall Apart	p. 91
A Heavy Yoko to Bear	p. 105
Let It Be	p. 119
Epilogue	p. 133
Albums	p. 155
Singles	p. 163
Awards	p. 167
Further Reading	p. 169
Index	p. 171
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