Revolution in the Head

The Beatles Records and the Sixties

Ian MacDonald

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Vintage
04 December 2008

Music; Rock & Pop music; Cultural studies

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

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 and Blur. 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.

By: Ian MacDonald
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 428g
ISBN: 9780099526797
ISBN 10: 0099526794
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 04 December 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ian MacDonald was born in 1948. A writer with many interests, he was Assistant Editor of the New Musical Express during 1972-5. He has also worked as a songwriter and record producer, and is the author of The New Shostakovich, The People's Music and The Beatles at No. 1.He died in 2003.

Reviews for Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

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