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Taschenbuch: 496 Seiten
Verlag: Pimlico; Auflage: New edition of Revised edition (4. Juli 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1844138283
ISBN-13: 978-1844138289
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 12,7 x 2,5 x 19,7 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 108.764 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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From Booklist

There's certainly no shortage of books on the Beatles. 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. His observations on the 1960s, fortunately confined largely to an introductory section, are, however, too often distressingly obvious. 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. He makes the tie-in to 1960s culture most effectively through a month-by-month time line that follows the song-by-song main text and places the Beatles' history next to developments in world affairs and pop culture. Even if your Beatles shelf is groaning, MacDonald's work will be a useful addition. Gordon Flagg -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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An ideal pathfinder on the Beatles' long and winding road from moptops to magi--insightful, informative, contentious, and as ambitious and surprising as its heroes. Popular music criticism is often a thankless task, falling uneasily between mindless hype and lugubrious academicism. MacDonald, former deputy editor of New Musical Express, adroitly bridges that gap, taking the factual chassis--recording session data, itineraries, etc.--laboriously assembled by Beatlemaniacs like Mark Lewisohn and bringing to bear a fan's enthusiasm, a musicologist's trained ear, and a critic's discernment to produce the most rigorous and reliable assessment of the Beatles' artistic achievement to date. Advancing chronologically through the songs, MacDonald provides an encyclopedic wealth of biographical, musical, and historical detail, yet always keeps his eyes on the prize--the uniquely rich elixir the group distilled from these disparate elements. He considers the Beatles on their own musical and cultural terms, taking his cue from contemporary influences (rhythm-and-blues, soul, and the supercharged social crucible of the '60s), rather than straining for highbrow parallels in Schoenberg or Schubert--you'll find no reference to the infamous ``Aeolian cadences'' of ``This Boy'' here. MacDonald makes no bones about his own critical convictions: He prefers the artful structures of pop, its ``energetic topicality'' that ``captures a mood or style in a condensed instant,'' to rock's ``dull grandiosity,'' a shift he attributes to a general retreat since the '60s away from depth and craftsmanship into spectacle and sensation. Accordingly, he champions the pop classicism of the Beatles' early-middle period, culminating in Revolver and Sgt. Pepper, and in his most memorably acerbic passages deplores the rockist leanings of their later work: ``Helter Skelter,'' for instance, is dismissed as ``ridiculous, McCartney shrieking weedily against a backdrop of out-of-tune thrashing.'' The ultimate Beatles Bible? Certainly a labor of love, and all the more valuable for holding the Fabs to the highest critical standards. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Great Beatle Reference Book - It 's FAB 13. Dezember 1999

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The are a lot of Beatle books on the market and this one deals with the music. This provides all of the information that should have been included with the CDs. Gives recording details, as well as what was going on with their creative processes at the time. This is a well done reference book and I am expecting a much larger update soon, particularly because of the Anthology and BBC material.

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hard to translate but worth the trouble 10. November 1999

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I tramslated this book into Japanese two years ago. Gosh! It was one of the toughest work I've ever done. But it was worth the trouble. I've come to understand their music more thoroughly since then. Simply it's the best book ever written about the music of The Beatles

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Great read - but harsh in places? 7. November 1999

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I loved reading about the origins, form and analysis of the songs as i listened to them, particularly. The paragraphs that describe each song are a strange mixture of contextual knowledge, musical analysis, and historical background all of which are enjoyable to read about - but in some places Macdonald is *too* quick to dismiss songs, at least in my opinion. It is good that the accounts are more objective than many accounts obviously created by fanatics, but I can find something good in every beatles song I hear, *every* one, and the author is a little quick to call certain tracks 'throwaways'et cetera. Fortunately this doesnt retract from a very good read, and can act as a good reference book for years to come.

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