Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles Phenomenon

In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate - even with hindsight - against the glare of the music industry's powerful, myth-making apparatus. . .

John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist of culture to develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon . . .

The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post-War years in England's Liverpool. . .the trembling class structure of an exhausted society. . .the advent of "youth" as a demographic force - and the explosion of electronic music in the 1960s as British culture is unmade and remade. . .

"Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" is a question that has gone unanswered for four decades - that is, until now . . .

Product details

• Authors: John Astley
• Publisher: John Astley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2023
• EAN: 9780955183478
• ISBN: 978-0-9551834-7-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 293 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history