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The Beatles (Paperback)
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The Beatles (Paperback)
Series: Icons of Pop Music
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Of all pop music's icons, the Beatles have attracted more attention
and generated more discussion than any other performers. The
group's transformation from a semi-professional skiffle group in
Liverpool to one of the twentieth century's key historical and
cultural events has been told and re-told in numerous forms - on
the cinema screen, in print, on stage, on TV and radio. Details of
their personal and private histories are familiar to audiences and
fans around the world. Their songs are among the best known and
most critically acclaimed of the rock'n'roll era. The ways in which
they dismantled many routine assumptions about the role of 'pop
stars' in the 1960s helped to substantially re-direct the
structures and cultures of the popular music industry in subsequent
decades. Sixty years after their formation, interest in the group
and its music remains as strong as ever.Because of the
unprecedented nature of their success, their perennial associations
with the century's most beguiling decade, the range of their
extra-musical activity, and the dramatic postscripts to a career
that effectively ended in 1970, many accounts of the Beatles have
adopted a tone that veers between the sensational and the
reverential. In addition, such accounts often overlook the
significance of the professional, geographical, historical and
technological constraints within which the Beatles worked, and
which shaped their live and recorded musical output. In this book,
Ian Inglis provides a succinct critical appreciation of the group
that is balanced, informative and objective. It concentrates above
all on the music of the Beatles, the context in which it was
created, performed and recorded, and its rapid and often startling
evolution which, powered by the formidable writing talents of John
Lennon & Paul McCartney, moved from early cover versions
through the conventions of the two- or three-minute love song to
the lyrical variety and musical innovations of their post-touring
years.His account separates myth from reality, documents the uneasy
relationship between creativity and control that acted as a
catalyst for their artistic development, and supplies fresh
insights into the aspirations and achievements of the world's most
celebrated popular musicians.
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