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Beatles 66 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large Type / Large Print Ed)
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Beatles 66 [Large Print] (Paperback, Large Type / Large Print Ed)
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A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers
of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever
change music and popular culture. They started off as
hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming
teenage fans and ended up as musical sages considered responsible
for ushering in a new era. The year that changed everything for the
Beatles was 1966--the year of their last concert and their first
album, Revolver, that was created to be listened to rather than
performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by
retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored
alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde
ideas, and speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, and
religion. It was the year their records were burned in America
after John's explosive claim that the group was "more popular than
Jesus," the year they were hounded out of the Philippines for
"snubbing" its First Lady, the year John met Yoko Ono, and the year
Paul conceived the idea for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
On the fiftieth anniversary of this seminal year, music journalist
and Beatles expert Steve Turner slows down the action to
investigate in detail the enormous changes that took place in the
Beatles' lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical
events that had an impact on the group, the music they made that in
turn profoundly affected the culture around them, and the vision
that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular
music and serve as pioneers for artists from Coldplay to David
Bowie, Jay-Z to U2. By talking to those close to the group and by
drawing on his past interviews with key figures such as George
Martin, Timothy Leary, and Ravi Shankar--and the Beatles
themselves--Turner gives us the compelling, definitive account of
the twelve months that contained everything the Beatles had been
and anticipated everything they would still become.
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