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The Beatles: The Pocket Essential Guide
The Beatles are the most successful entity in the history of the entertainment business ever! Fact! And it all didn't happen by accident.
Four working-class lads met up in and around Liverpool towards the end of the 1950s. They spent several years playing around Liverpool and in Hamburg fine tuning their band, performance and song writing before meeting up with Liverpool entrepreneur Brian Epstein and releasing their first album, Please Please Me, forty years ago today (publication day 23 March 2003).
During the following ten years they broke every performance and sales record in the book, most notably in May 1964 each and every one of the top five singles in the American Billboard chart was theirs. On top of which they recorded, arguably, three of the best contemporary albums ever released.
The Beatles were the soundtrack to the sixties. This Pocket Essential discusses how they met and, using the songs and records as signposts, takes you on a journey through their colourful, historic and celebrated career.
Four working-class lads met up in and around Liverpool towards the end of the 1950s. They spent several years playing around Liverpool and in Hamburg fine tuning their band, performance and song writing before meeting up with Liverpool entrepreneur Brian Epstein and releasing their first album, Please Please Me, forty years ago today (publication day 23 March 2003).
During the following ten years they broke every performance and sales record in the book, most notably in May 1964 each and every one of the top five singles in the American Billboard chart was theirs. On top of which they recorded, arguably, three of the best contemporary albums ever released.
The Beatles were the soundtrack to the sixties. This Pocket Essential discusses how they met and, using the songs and records as signposts, takes you on a journey through their colourful, historic and celebrated career.
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First published February 1, 2003
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About the author
Paul Charles
63 books11 followersPaul Charles was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He now lives and works in Camden Town, where he divides his time between writing novels and short stories and working in the music industry.
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October 13, 2018
Entertaining.
February 23, 2022
It’s fine as a quick summary of their career, with a few little nuggets of that a casual fan may not know.
January 9, 2013
Paul Charles takes us on a brief musical biography of the Beatles. That is to say that he looks at the groups formation, and then each single and album, noting innovations and landmarks established by arguably the greatest musical group of all time. His incites a enlightening for those (like myself) who are familiar with the basic history of the group but want to know specifically what is what that they did to create musical history
December 4, 2015
Disfruto mucho los libros sobre música y disfruto mas los de The Beatles, conforme van mencionando sus canciones estan tocando en mi cabeza, lo lees como en 3 horas y se me fue tan rápido que lo lei 2 veces mas, el autor odia a Yoko y se siente, es casi gracioso y un poco triste. Con datos concretos y muy buenas referencias es un muy buen libro.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews