Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

by Ian MacDonald
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This extraordinary work of popular criticism provides the story behind every single Beatles song ever recorded. Unprecedented and unparalleled.

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As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world.Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records. Drawing on a unique resource of knowledge and experience to 'read' their 241 tracks - chronologically from their first amateur efforts in 1957 to 'Real Love', their final 'reunion' recording in 1995 - Ian MacDonald has created an engrossing classic of popular criticism in which the extraordinary songs of The Beatles remain a central and continually surprising presence.

Editorial Reviews

"The finest piece of fabs scholarship ever published" - Mojo

" The masterpiece The Beatles deserved" - Max Bell, Vox

"The most sustained brilliant piece of pop criticism and scholarship for years. An astonishing achievement" - Stuart Maconie, Q

" No book has ever taken us closer to the actual music of The Beatles...A brilliant piece of work" - Tony Parsons, Daily Telegraph

" Consistently brilliant. The Beatles have never been so discriminately adored" - Robert Sandall, Sunday Times

" An unprecedented critical feat...The most powerful and enlightening work on British pop since Jon Savage's England's Dreaming" - Charles Shaar Murray, Time Out

"A tour de force of pop/rock criticism...A complex swan-song for the decade when pop music really mattered." - Liam Carson, Irish Tribune

"Impassioned, compelling...It's a vigorous testament to the legacy of The Beatles that it can provoke work as challenging as this" - Adam Sweeting, Guardian

"Beatles books are an industry; this product pretty much closes down the factory" - Giles Smith, Guardian

"Arguably the most indispensable Beatles book ever published has just become more indispensable..." - Terry Staunton, Uncut

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