Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition

The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles

AvKenneth Womack

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band’s story vividly to life—from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group’s development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles’ creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career. In this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group’s outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles’ musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band’s timeless story.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-12
Mått:152 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501387050

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Musikböcker inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kenneth Womack is one of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon, as well as a contributor to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of The Beatles Encyclopedia (2014), Maximum Volume (2017), Sound Pictures (2018), Solid State (2019), and John Lennon 1980 (2020). In October 2020, Rolling Stone magazine published a feature story outlining Womack’s groundbreaking research associated with Lennon’s life and work.

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Combining masterful storytelling and intellectual rigor, Kenneth Womack takes readers on a spellbinding tour of Beatles history. Journeying through the band’s music-making album by album, this revised edition of Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles captures all the dynamism, poignancy, and magic behind the now-iconic discography. An engaging and invaluable text, Womack demonstrates once more why he is a leading voice in Beatles scholarship.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: The End1. The Beginning2. A Cellarful of Noise 3. And the Band Begins to Play4. Rock and Roll Music5. The Biggest Showbiz Town Ever6. War-Weary 7. Yesterday and Today8. Plastic Soul9. The End of the Road10. The Act You’ve Known for All These Years11. Roll Up for the Mystery Tour12. Whiter Shades of Pale13. Getting Back14. The Dream Is OverEpilogue: Long Live the DreamAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotesIndex