In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735210691 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent book. Stories that has the scent and flavor Excellent book. Stories that has the scent and flavor of vanilla, gin and tonica and lost flames. Lovely Sergeant Penguin!. Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs’ is a serial anthologist Andrew Blauner, the editor of ‘In Their Lives. Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs’ is a serial anthologist. This is his sixth. In this instance he apparently asked twenty-eight people to write about their favourite Beatles songs (although their responses cover much more than twenty-eight songs). According to the introdu. Five Stars Michael W. Wilson Exactly as described and delivered in a timely fashion.
His other anthologies are Coach, Brothers, Central Park, Our Boston, The Good Book, and (coeditor) For the Love of Baseball. A graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University School of Business, Blauner is a member of PEN American Center and the National Book Critics Circle, and a former intern at Rolling Stone. . ANDREW BLAUNER is the founder of Blauner Books Litera
Some first-rate music criticism's in here, too.”—Ann Powers, critic for NPR Music, author of Weird Like Us “Sharp, witty, incisive, revealing. I must have read millions of words on the Beatles, but there is always room and scope and desire to write even more as every generation discovers them. “In Their Lives is full of pleasant surprises.”—New York Times“So many of us learned the basics from the Beatles: how to listen, what longing feels like, the pleasure of loving and thinking about art. The essays are as heartfelt and high-spirited as the songs themselves. As the Beatles
From musings on young love and family strife to explorations of racial boundaries and identity, these essays pay tribute to a band that ran the gamut of human experience in a way no musical group has done before or since.Timed for the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Sgt. Arranged chronologically by the date of the song’s release, these essays highlight both the Beatles’ evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. For readers who loved Tune In and Nick Hornby’s Songbook, an anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. The Beatles’ influence—on their contemporaries, on our cultural consciousness, and on the music industry ever after—is difficult to overstate. We all have a favorite song from the band that made us want to fall in love, tune in, and follow our dreams. Whether they are Beatlemaniacs who grew up listening to the iconic albums on vinyl or new fans who stream their favorite songs on their phones, all of the contributors explore that poignant intersection between Beatles history and personal history.With contributions from twenty-nine aut