The Beatles are the ultimate band – the most popular, the most respected, the most influential. This new edition of The Rough Guide to the Beatles covers every aspect of the Fab Four, delving deep into the music, lyrics, movies and solo careers. Features include: The Story: from Liverpool clubs to Beatlemania. The Music: incisive reviews of every Beatles and solo album. The Canon: the inside track on the 50 greatest songs. On Screen: the movies, the promos and the TV appearances. The Fifth Beatle: George Martin, Yoko Ono, Magic Alex and other contenders. Beatleology: the best books, the weirdest covers, the most obsessive websites, the obscurest trivia.
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Chris Ingham is a music journalist, jazz musician and songwriter.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Beatles in Just 325 Pages! Well, Almost.,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to The Beatles (Rough Guide Music Guides) (Paperback)
Intended as a one-stop shopping guide to the Beatles, Chris Ingham packs a lot of info on the Beatles into this small (7"x7") package. Ingham's book, in this 2nd edition, can't claim to be definitive but it is a good primer on the life and times of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
As with other books in the ROUGH GUIDE series, this book casts its net wide, encompassing the history of the Beatles including their solo years, many of their "friends and lovers," the 50 Beatle songs Ingham considers essential, the movies they made, the books and artwork they created, Beatle haunts and landmarks, candidates for the 'Fifth Beatle' title, and so on. It's a very interesting, informative and often insightful guide. Exhaustive, no; entertaining, yes! Ingham is a triple threat - author, musician and drama teacher. Occasionally he forgets that not everyone shares his expertise and you wade through sentences like: "..their tightly scripted ensemble scenes (in 'Hard Day's Night') generated an attractive, intriguingly intimate exclusivity..." or "...the diminished chord (darker than a minor chord with a flat fifth and double flat seventh as well as a flat third) dominates 'Blue Jay Way'..." Given its built-in limitations, Ingham's book is a good buy, a broadbrush yet incisive guide to the Beatles. *** I question the inclusion of 'Free as a Bird' in his list of 50 essential Beatle songs. I've always considered that song a triumph of technology over taste. But it's Ingham's book and everyone's entitled to their opinion so the book got five stars.
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Great Book!,
By Yamisonic "Jo-C" (Peru) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to The Beatles (Rough Guide Sports/Pop Culture) (Paperback)
This book is wonderful, Chris Ingham did a great job gathering all the facts. The opening section is my favourite, it has all the facts you want to know from The Beatles -- Though I would liked to see more about the breakup and why they stopped touring. Another great section is The Canon - Ingham covered amazingly well the 50 essential songs (not the best, the essential).
Buy the book if you like The Beatles ... You won't regret it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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THE LONG & WINDING ROAD,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to The Beatles (Rough Guide Sports/Pop Culture) (Paperback)
...that leads you to the Beatles!
This is a truly delightful book replete with information covering the inception of the group in 1957 until George Harrison's untimely death in 2001. Fans and people just becoming familiar with the Beatles will be captivated by the way the subject matter is presented. All in all, a rave review. I love it!
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When Ivan Vaughan suggested to his 15-year-old school friend Paul McCartney that he might want to come to St Peter's Church fete in Woolton, on Saturday July 6, 1957 to see his mate John Lennon play in his skiffle group, The Quarry Men, he added as further inducement not that the event would be the pivotal moment in shaping the direction of popular music for the remainder of the twentieth century and beyond, but that it might be a good place to pick up girls. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Beatles, Abbey Road, John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin, Brian Epstein, Hard Day's Night, Get Back, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, New York, Yoko Ono, Penny Lane, The White Album, Day In The Life, Past Masters Volume, Hey Jude, Bob Dylan, Want To Hold Your Hand, Dark Horse, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, Neil Aspinall, Pete Best Browse Sample Pages:
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When Ivan Vaughan suggested to his 15-year-old school friend Paul McCartney that he might want to come to St Peter's Church fete in Woolton, on Saturday July 6, 1957 to see his mate John Lennon play in his skiffle group, The Quarry Men, he added as further inducement not that the event would be the pivotal moment in shaping the direction of popular music for the remainder of the twentieth century and beyond, but that it might be a good place to pick up girls. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flaming pie, vertical man, gone troppo, working class hero, choose love, carry that weight, instant karma, bonus tracks, gently weeps, warm gun, chart position, studio years Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Beatles, Abbey Road, John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin, Brian Epstein, Hard Day's Night, Get Back, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, New York, Yoko Ono, Penny Lane, The White Album, Day In The Life, Past Masters Volume, Hey Jude, Bob Dylan, Want To Hold Your Hand, Dark Horse, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, Neil Aspinall, Pete Best Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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