Help! - The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the cooperative method at the foundation of these two artist-groups was the primary reason for their unmatched musical success.

While clarifying the historical record of who wrote what, with whom and how, Brothers brings the past to life with photos, anecdotes and more than thirty years of musical knowledge, and analysis of songs from "Strawberry Fields Forever" to "Chelsea Bridge". Help! describes in rich detail the music and mastery of two cultural leaders whose popularity has never dimmed, and the process of collaboration that allowed them to achieve an artistic vision greater than the sum of their parts.

About the author

Thomas Brothers is the author of Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration; Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans; and Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A professor of music at Duke University, he lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Brothers, Thomas (Duke University) Brothers, Brothers Thomas
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2019
• EAN: 9780393357523
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35752-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 339 g
• Illustrations: 30 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology