Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And AfterA unique combination of musical analysis and cultural history, Tell Me Why stands alone among Beatles books with its single-minded focus on the most important aspect of the band: its music. Riley offers a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles by closely considering each song and album they recorded in an exploration as rigorous as it is soulful. He tirelessly sifts through the Beatles discography, making clear that the legendary four were more than mere teen idols: They were brilliant innovators who mastered an extremely detailed art. Since the first publication of Tell Me Why in 1988, much new primary source material has appeared -- Paul McCartney's authorized biography, the Anthology CDs and videos, the complete Parlophone-sequenced albums on CD, the Live at the BBCsessions, and the global smash 1. Riley incorporates all the new material in an update that makes this a crucial book for Beatles fans. |
Contents
| 5 | |
From the Garage to the Dance Floor | 37 |
Beyond Adolescence | 91 |
Tired of Touring | 115 |
Paranoia and Insouciance | 132 |
States of the Heart | 152 |
States of Mind | 176 |
Fools on the Bus | 232 |
Roll Over George Martin | 289 |
A TwoHeaded Oracle | 308 |
The Dream Is Over | 338 |
Epilogue to the Second Edition | 389 |
Selected Bibliography to the Second Edition | 417 |
| 423 | |
Acknowledgments | 432 |
Fractured Unities | 245 |
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Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After Tim Riley Limited preview - 2009 |
Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After Tim Riley Limited preview - 2002 |
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