Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties - Ian Macdonald.epub

This “Bible of the Beatles” captures the iconic band’s magical and mysterious journey from adorable teenagers to revered cultural emissaries. In this fully updated version, each of their 241 tracks is assessed chronologically from their first amateur recordings in 1957 to their final “reunion” recording in 1995. It also incorporates new information from the Anthology series and recent interviews with Paul McCartney. This comprehensive guide offers fascinating details about the Beatles’ lives, music, and era, never losing sight of what made the band so important, unique, and enjoyable.

"MacDonald was that rarest of critics-- someone who could tackle musicological detail without boring or baffling the reader. And this, more than anything, is how Revolution in the Head achieves what the best music books do: pushing its readers away from the page and back to the records, however often they've been played. Like the music it so tenderly dissects, this book has sparked a forest of imitations, which often get the form right and fall at the content. It's become, like its subject, a wonderful monolith."