How They Became the Beatles
Author: Gareth L. Pawlowski
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the band's rise to fame, featuring many rare documents and photographs.
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How They Became the Beatles
Author: Gareth L. Pawlowski
Publisher: New York : Plume
Published: 1990-10-01
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9780452265066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the first phase of the Beatles' career, following the group from their May 1960 audition to their invasion of America
Fab Four Friends
Author: Susanna Reich
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-08-18
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 080509458X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines lyrical prose and illustrations in an introduction to The Beatles, history's best-selling band, that details their ordinary childhoods and musical inspirations amid a backdrop of postwar England.
Who Were the Beatles?
Author: Geoff Edgers
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1101078278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was...? book. Readers will learn about their childhoods in Liverpool, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!
We Are The Beatles
Author: Zoë Tucker
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0711261555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis inspiring picture book tells the story of the friendship between Ringo, Paul, George, and John, and how their unique talents came together to make something brilliant. In 1957, a boy named Paul met a boy named John. John was funny and confident, while Paul was quiet and steady, but one thing they had in common was a love and talent for songwriting. When they were joined by George and Ringo, they formed the band whose name would soon be known across the world: The Beatles. Together, the Fab Four became the world’s best-loved band, drawing huge crowds to packed-out stadiums. But even they got nervous sometimes, and in those times they knew they could rely on each other. Through the power of friendship, The Beatles made their biggest dreams come true and still bring joy to the lives of millions. Friends Change the World is a series of picture books that celebrates the power of friendship. From musical greats to sports champions, scientists and explorers to artists and activists, these are the true stories of real friends who achieved amazing things. Whether best friends since school or thrown together by a chance encounter, they supported and inspired each other to make their shared dreams come true. This charming series shows 4- to 7-year-olds how togetherness, respect, and friendship can make the world a better place.
How the Beatles Changed the World
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0802735657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years after the British invasion began, Martin Sandler explores The Beatles' long-lasting impact on the world
The Beatles and the Historians
Author: Erin Torkelson Weber
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-04-27
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1476624704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history and the story of how the Beatles' mythology continues to be told has been largely ignored. This book examines the band's historiography, exploring the four major narratives that have developed over time: The semi-whitewashed "Fab Four" account, the acrimonious breakup-era Lennon Remembers version, the biased "Shout!" narrative in the wake of John Lennon's murder, and the current Mark Lewisohn orthodoxy. Drawing on the most influential primary and secondary sources, Beatles history is analyzed using historical methods.
Before They Were Beatles
Author: Alan J. Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781413430578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiverpool, England, October 1956. Schoolboy John Lennon and his best friend, Peter Shotton, decide to start a skiffle group as "a bit of a lark." Four years later John, now accompanied by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best, leaves Liverpool to start a series of near legendary gigs in Hamburg, Germany. His group now performing under their newly acquired name THE BEATLES. This is the story of those four years. The story of how one of thousands of amateur schoolboy skiffle bands evolved into the beginnings of the greatest band in popular history. It's a story of hope, creativity and exploring musical boundaries. It's also a story of tragedy, coincidence and at times just sheer luck. This is a story of beginnings, the story of John, Paul, George and Ringo - Before They Were Beatles.
And in the End
Author: Ken McNab
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 125080373X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ken McNab's in-depth look at The Beatles' acrimonious final year is a detailed account of the breakup featuring the perspectives of all four band members and their roles. A must to add to the collection of Beatles fans, And In the End is full of fascinating information available for the first time. McNab reconstructs for the first time the seismic events of 1969, when The Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife that would destroy them. Between the pressure of being filmed during rehearsals and writing sessions for the documentary Get Back, their company Apple Corps facing bankruptcy, Lennon's heroin use, and musical disagreements, the group was arguing more than ever before and their formerly close friendship began to disintegrate. In the midst of this rancour, however, emerged the disharmony of Let It Be and the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world"--
Dreaming the Beatles
Author: Rob Sheffield
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0062207679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism “This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today.
