New American Library, 1989. — 464 p. Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band — and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding — presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of...
Vintage; Random House, 1997. — ISBN: 0-7493-8658-4. During the past year Paul McCartney has been in the public's eye more than at any time since the peak of Beatlemania over thirty years ago. His fans have been treated to the best-selling Flaming Pie and Standing Stone albums, a full hour of Paul on "Oprah," and this thoughtful and comprehensive biography that brings us closer...
Omnibus Press, 1994. — 128 p. — ISBN: 978-0711935488. A consumers' guide to the music of The Beatles. An album by album, track by track, run-down of every song recorded by The Beatles, from "I Saw Her Standing There" to "Let It Be". It includes: full details of who wrote and sang which songs, when and where the songs where recorded, and who played on which songs; the truth...
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014. — 255 p. Tools of Satan, Liverpool Division by Joe Queenan Greil Marcus, rock critic We Saw Them Standing There by Amanda Vaill A Newspaper Article by Gay Talese In Love with Gorgeous George by Penelope Rowlands A Letter from Vickie Brenna-Costa Henry Grossman, photographer Good Bye, Mitzi Gaynor by Verlyn Klinkenborg Jamie Nicol Bowles,...
Da Capo Press, 2010. — 657 p. For a long time now, there’s been no reason to expect anything of interest from new Paul McCartney music. But he’s seldom stayed out of the news. His new albums tend to elicit the most embarrassing kind of journalistic puffery (few can resist being on the receiving end of a Beatle’s charms), and he’s enthusiastically embraced The Beatles’ past with...
Da Capo Press, 2010. — 657 p. For a long time now, there’s been no reason to expect anything of interest from new Paul McCartney music. But he’s seldom stayed out of the news. His new albums tend to elicit the most embarrassing kind of journalistic puffery (few can resist being on the receiving end of a Beatle’s charms), and he’s enthusiastically embraced The Beatles’ past with...
John Blake Publishing, 2011. — 257 p. — ISBN: 190403473X. When we went to the Palace to get The Beatles their OBEs. John Lennon had some acid with him. 'I'm gonna slip it into the Queen's tea,' he told me. 'I want to open her mind and try to get her to declare war on somewhere nice and warm so we can all go and fight on the beaches.' After Jane Asher dumped Paul McCartney he...
HarperCollins, 2016. — ISBN: 978-0062475596. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 323 p. — ISBN: 9780195341546. Written with verve and style, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll shakes up our staid notions of music history and helps us hear American popular music with new ears... As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history.
Greenwood, 2016. — ISBN: 978-1440844263. Legendary in music and popular culture, the Beatles were one of the most successful bands of all time. The collective achievements of the Fab Four affect a broad demographic that includes today's children, Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers. This one-volume condensed paperback edition of "The Beatles Encyclopedia" brings the...
State University of New York Press, 2006. — 264 p. — ISBN: 0791467163. Addresses the band's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music. Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band's abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant...
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