090027
New York
1996
17,5×23,5
meki
434
engleski
Cijena: 12,00 EUR
A prominent journalistic masterpiece by American investigative journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard. The book is rightfully considered one of the most important, serious, and accurate works in the entire body of literature surrounding the iconic Fab Four. Hertsgaard was the first journalist outside the band's official circle to be granted exclusive and unprecedented access to the strictly guarded archive tapes at London's Abbey Road Studios, allowing him to reconstruct their creative process step-by-step, song-by-song, and album-by-album. Through 24 highly engaging and thoroughly documented chapters, the author guides the reader from the earliest days, the Hamburg apprenticeship, and the initial wave of Beatlemania, through pivotal studio experiments on albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, all the way to the final breakup and the creation of the masterpiece Abbey Road. The book delivers fascinating, uncensored insights into the Lennon-McCartney collaboration, the influence of producer George Martin, and the roles that drugs, politics, and spirituality played in their evolution, culminating in an extensive official discography and an index. Unlike typical biographies that focus solely on private gossip and scandals, Hertsgaard’s work emphasizes the pure artistry and technical magic of creating music that changed popular culture forever. The high praise and acclaim from prestigious media outlets like The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and the Baltimore Sun printed on the covers serve as the ultimate confirmation that this is an invaluable historical document. The book is 'solid, complete, and clean inside' (used-good condition), with a perfectly tight binding and no loose pages or text underlining.
