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Author:	Steve Turner
Title:	Beatles '66
Subtitle:	The Revolutionary Year
Publisher:	Harper Collins
Country:	UK
Date:	3 Nov 2016
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music
ISBN-13:	9780062475480
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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464 pages. Book dimensions: 15.2 cms x 3.6 cms x 22.9 cms.

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A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives & careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music & popular culture.

The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966—the year of their last concert & their first album, Revolver, that was created to be listened to rather than performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde ideas, & speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, & religion. It was the year their records were burned in America after John’s explosive claim that the group was "more popular than Jesus," the year they were hounded out of the Philippines for "snubbing" its First Lady, the year John met Yoko Ono, & the year Paul conceived the idea for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

On the fiftieth anniversary of this seminal year, music journalist & Beatles expert Steve Turner slows down the action to investigate in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles’ lives & work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that had an impact on the group, the music they made that in turn profoundly affected the culture around them, & the vision that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular music & serve as pioneers for artists from Coldplay to David Bowie, Jay-Z to U2.

By talking to those close to the group & by drawing on his past interviews with key figures such as George Martin, Timothy Leary, & Ravi Shankar—and the Beatles themselves—Turner gives us the compelling, definitive account of the twelve months that contained everything the Beatles had been & anticipated everything they would still become.

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