A Hard Day's Write, Revised Edition: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062736981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"* "One of the most readable and illuminating books ever written about The Beatles" (The Music Paper)"
. Angelbeaded Hipster, and Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, and the London Times. He lives in London with his wife and two children. Steve Turner is the author of Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, A Hard Day's, Write: Th
Great book I bought this as a gift for a friend after getting a copy as a gift myself. It's a great book, full of interesting stories of how the Beatles songs came to be. It's full of interesting tidbits like this: the Beatles and the Stones were actually good friends, not the rivals they were portrayed as. In fact the Stones were struggling and having a hard time, and the Beatles wrote a song and gave it to them, a song that basically saved their career. It's a quick, fun read, especially if you're a fan.. "Excellent" according to Eurisko Lontano. If you really want to know nearly everything about Beatles this is a fine read. Great coverage of all the songs origins and true meanings hidden in obfuscated lyrics, which is the way they loved to do.. Lawrance Bernabo said Everything we know (to date) of every Beatles song (to date). In the music unit my Popular Culture class we look at the songs of the Beatles, specifically those collected on their "Beatles 1" album. Students write a paper looking at the stages of the group as defined by the songs on that album and sometimes they find things on the Internet that talk about how John Lennon and Paul McCartney (and George Harrison for "Something") came to write their songs. Unfortunately that has little to do with putting these songs into distinct chronological stages, but after reading "A Hard Day's Write"
The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves. A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewe