A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song [Please Please Me - With the Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - Beatles for Sale - Help! - Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine - The Beatles - Let It Be - Abbey Road - Live at the BBC - Anthology 1-3 - Chronology]
Turner, Steve; Nicola Hodge, Zoe Maggs, Stephen Kirk, Juliet Duff, Sarah Schuman, Lucy O'Donnell, Royston Ellis, Thelma McGough
Language: English
Published by Harper, New York, 2005, 2005
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New and updated ed., 3rd ed ; 224 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm ; ISBN 9780060844097, 0060844094 ; OCLC 62139503 ; pictorial photogrpahic stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge has a bit of a tiny curl, else Near FINE; "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. This book offers a fascinating exploration of how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. 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. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closest to the Beatles themselves. [This] definitive text [.] is a hugely informative and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads." --From cover.…
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- Title
- A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song [Please Please Me - With the Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - Beatles for Sale - Help! - Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine - The Beatles - Let It Be - Abbey Road - Live at the BBC - Anthology 1-3 - Chronology]
- Author
- Turner, Steve; Nicola Hodge, Zoe Maggs, Stephen Kirk, Juliet Duff, Sarah Schuman, Lucy O'Donnell, Royston Ellis, Thelma McGough
- Publisher
- Harper, New York, 2005
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060844094
- ISBN 13
- 9780060844097
A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics.
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.
Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. 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. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves.
Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.
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About the Author
Steve Turner is the author of Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Hungry for Heaven: Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption, Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded 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.
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