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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Womack is one of the world's foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles and Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He is the author of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans (2023), John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life (2020), Solid State: The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles (2019), and several other books on the Beatles. He serves as the music culture critic for Salon and has contributed to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, and NBC News . Klappentext In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.In order to communicate the nature and power of the band's remarkable achievement, Womack examines the Beatles' body of work as an evolving art object. He investigates the origins and creation of the group's compositions, as well as the songwriting and recording practices that brought them to fruition. Womack's analysis of the Beatles' albums transports readers on a journey through the Beatles' heyday as recording artists between 1962 and 1969, when the band enjoyed a staggering musical and lyrical leap that took them from their first album Please Please Me, which they recorded in the space of a single day, to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , the White Album , and Abbey Road -albums that collectively required literally thousands of hours to produce. In addition to considering the band's increasing self-consciousness about the overall production, design, and presentation of their art, Womack explores the Beatles' albums as a collection of musical and lyrical impressions that finds them working towards a sense of aesthetic unity. In Long and Winding Roads , Womack reveals the ways in which the Beatles gave life to a musical synthesis that would change the world. Zusammenfassung Sheds light on the Beatles' story - from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: The EndChapter 2: The BeginningChapter 3: A Cellarful of Noise Chapter 4: And the Band Begins to PlayChapter 5: Rock and Roll MusicChapter 6: The Biggest Showbiz Town EverChapter 7: Yesterday and TodayChapter 8: The End of the RoadChapter 9: The Act You've Known for All These YearsChapter 10: Roll Up for the Mystery TourChapter 11: You Say You Want a RevolutionChapter 12: Getting BackChapter 13: The Dream Is Over Chapter 14: Long Live the DreamAcknowledgementsAppendix A: DiscographyAppendix B: Terminology NotesBibliography...
