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Read [Ian MacDonald Book] * Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties It considers all the elements which combined to create each song as it was captured on vinyl - the songwriting process, the stimuli of contemporary pop hits and events, the evolving input from the bandmembers, the innovations pulled off in the studio and the influence of psychedelic drugs - all set against the backdrop of the era.. Tracing the development of the Beatles song-by-song, this book places the group in the wider cultural context of the '60s]
| Title | : | Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805027807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 373 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
"Is there a revised edition of this book ANYWHERE?" according to jgc. More a question than a book review here. This edition is described as being updated; comparing it to the original hardcover, however, I found only one update -- a footnote in which MacDonald briefly comments on the 'Live at the BBC' album. Otherwise it is identical to the first edition. There is nothing on the Anthology material. So the question is this: Is that one little footnote the extent of MacDonald's "revisions"? If there is a fatter, better edition out there, I'd love to have it.Anyway, now that I'm here I might as well say that this is not only the best critical analysis of the Beatles' work ever written; it's almost the. Admit it, folks, this is the best! Will everyone stop saying Ian Macdonald mistreats George Harrison? He gives plentiful praise to 'The Inner Light' and 'Something,' after all. Calling George 'most thoughtful if not the most talented Beatle' is right on, as are his takes on Lennon's narcissism, McCartney's nonsense, and Ringo'ser,excellent drumming on 'Rain,' but he gives them the praise they're due as well. This is an exciting, dramatic, intellectual, unputdownable book, and will inspire your own writing in the process! If only poor Ian hadn't killed himself, he might have written something as equally perceptive about the Stones. Oh, well. Give tribute to the lat. John D. Muir said Interesting opinions. Ian MacDonald wrote this book to try and give a more musicianly insight into the songs, while placing them in their cultural context. This is how every book on the Beatles should be written, in my opinion; the songs are what matters and the lives and times of the band members are interesting insofar as they affect why and how the music was made. Trivia for its own sake, or worse still, scandal for the sake of pandering to the lascivious reader is a dead waste of time.Where the book goes a little off the rails for me is that the author has a tendency to state his opinions as fact. As opinions, they're interesting, but to imply tha
Even if your Beatles shelf is groaning, MacDonald's work will be a useful addition. In this latest one, MacDonald--musician, composer, and former New Musical Express editor--purports to do something different by putting the group in the cultural context of its decade. He's far more successful when he focuses on the music with a song-by-song chronicle of the group's career. Other Beatles books have taken the same approach, but MacDonald's incorporates session information from Mark Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988), and it details the group's musical development and growing reliance on the recording studio and then makes some cogent observations on both the culture and the music. From Booklist There's certainly no shortage of books on the Beatles. He makes the tie-in to 1960s culture most effectively through a month-by-month time line that follows the song-by-song main
It considers all the elements which combined to create each song as it was captured on vinyl - the songwriting process, the stimuli of contemporary pop hits and events, the evolving input from the bandmembers, the innovations pulled off in the studio and the influence of psychedelic drugs - all set against the backdrop of the era.. Tracing the development of the Beatles song-by-song, this book places the group in the wider cultural context of the '60s
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