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OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: 2000 LYFH ()
Date: September 10, 2013 17:10

Look at all the Beatle books behind him! What about a similiar book on the Stones, start with the 60's?





Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: paulm ()
Date: September 10, 2013 17:41

Thanks for posting; looks interesting. Like Mark L. suggests, the Beatles are a historical, artistic, and cultural phenomenon. The Stones, and any other Brit invasion band, rode the coat tails. It's just not the same magnitude, and none of the other bands come close to the Beatles breadth, musically or lyrically. The Beatles transcended something.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: stonesrule ()
Date: September 10, 2013 18:22

With the help and dedication of Brian Epstein.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: whitem8 ()
Date: September 10, 2013 18:32

He writes excellent Beatle books. I just ordered. I wish someone would do the same on the Stones, write an exhaustive studio book based on fact from their tapes.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: Title5Take1 ()
Date: September 10, 2013 18:42

I'll be getting that.

I used his book The Beatles London when in London to see a bunch of Beatles sites. It was great to have.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: stonehearted ()
Date: September 10, 2013 21:39

Well, it's good that the editors and publisher are giving a Beatles biographer free reign--800,000 words? Glad they didn't cut him down to 150,000. A Beatles bio in three volumes? Looks like this is the "Anthology" of Beatles biographies--unprecedented in that genre.

It is true that one cannot underestimate--let alone fully grasp--the impact The Beatles had on culture and the transformation of popular music, particularly on the songwriting aspect of the music business.

Neil Diamond explains how things changed once The Beatles exploded on the scene:

'I remember I was still in the Brill Building when they arrived in the US. All the staff writers gathered around and listened to this new group from England that was all the rave and all the talk.

'I thought: “OK, they’re pretty good.” We thought maybe it was just like a teenage sensation because the kids were going crazy over the Beatles. But they did change the way the music business was done in the United States, no question about it.’

The shock waves of the Fab Four’s invasion of the US, he says, were profound. 'First of all, the writing of Lennon and McCartney signalled the emancipation of the songwriter, who had always been the low man on the totem pole. Paid the least. Least respected. Least recognised. But suddenly the songwriter was on a par with the big stars – these guys could not only write but they could sing as well.’

So began the end of the Tin Pan Alley era. 'People realised it wasn’t necessary to have somebody own your copyright to your songs and bring them around to try to get other people to record them,’ says Diamond, who has hung on to the copyright of all his songs since.

Full interview at: [www.telegraph.co.uk]

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: owlbynite ()
Date: September 12, 2013 06:44

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paulm
Thanks for posting; looks interesting. Like Mark L. suggests, the Beatles are a historical, artistic, and cultural phenomenon. The Stones, and any other Brit invasion band, rode the coat tails. It's just not the same magnitude, and none of the other bands come close to the Beatles breadth, musically or lyrically. The Beatles transcended something.
thumbs up

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: Title5Take1 ()
Date: September 12, 2013 08:10

I read a Paul interview and a George interview in the same year. Paul was asked a Beatles question and he answered, "Ask Mark Lewisohn!"

And then George said, "Everyone praises Mark Lewisohn as the great Beatles expert. But I randomly opened one of his books and immediately found things he got wrong."

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: nightskyman ()
Date: September 12, 2013 15:11

He's a bit too close to the Beatles. He has a great reputation, though, and hos Beatles books are always thorough and fun.

I've been waiting a long time (since I first heard he was writing it), and the first volume at least is finally here. I've pre-ordered it.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: whitem8 ()
Date: September 12, 2013 18:53

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Title5Take1
I read a Paul interview and a George interview in the same year. Paul was asked a Beatles question and he answered, "Ask Mark Lewisohn!"

And then George said, "Everyone praises Mark Lewisohn as the great Beatles expert. But I randomly opened one of his books and immediately found things he got wrong."

Well that is George isn't it. Interesting watching The Beatles Anthology how sometimes all four would have a different account of an event. And at times the memory was tainted by opinion. I am sure Mark Lewisohn isn't perfect, but also he is an exhaustive researcher and seams to delve deeply into his projects.

Re: OT: Beatles All These Years : Three Part biography by Mark Lewisohn
Posted by: nightskyman ()
Date: September 12, 2013 19:41

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whitem8
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Title5Take1
I read a Paul interview and a George interview in the same year. Paul was asked a Beatles question and he answered, "Ask Mark Lewisohn!"

And then George said, "Everyone praises Mark Lewisohn as the great Beatles expert. But I randomly opened one of his books and immediately found things he got wrong."

Well that is George isn't it. Interesting watching The Beatles Anthology how sometimes all four would have a different account of an event. And at times the memory was tainted by opinion. I am sure Mark Lewisohn isn't perfect, but also he is an exhaustive researcher and seams to delve deeply into his projects.

Differing opinions certainly from John and George vs. Paul. Just like Jagger, Richards and Wyman, etc.

And George Harrison supposedly had the best memory of the four (according to Hunter Davies).

Yes, I'm not expecting perfection but I think it will great deal better than the Spitz book and previous biographies. Looking forward to it.



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