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Author:	Ian Inglis
Title:	The Beatles
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing
Country:	UK
Date:	22 Mar 2017
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781845538651
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204 pages. Book dimensions: 11.2 cms x 1.3 cms x 21.3 cms.

Extract from the publisher's website (www link as at 7 April 2020):

Of all pop music’s icons, the Beatles have attracted more attention & generated more discussion than any other performers. The group’s transformation from a semi-professional skiffle group in Liverpool to one of the twentieth century’s key historical & cultural events has been told and re-told in numerous forms – on the cinema screen, in print, on stage, on TV & radio. Details of their personal & private histories are familiar to audiences & fans around the world. Their songs are among the best known & most critically acclaimed of the rock’n’roll era. The ways in which they dismantled many routine assumptions about the role of ‘pop stars’ in the 1960s helped to substantially re-direct the structures & cultures of the popular music industry in subsequent decades. Sixty years after their formation, interest in the group & its music remains as strong as ever.

Because of the unprecedented nature of their success, their perennial associations with the century’s most beguiling decade, the range of their extra-musical activity, and the dramatic postscripts to a career that effectively ended in 1970, many accounts of the Beatles have adopted a tone that veers between the sensational and the reverential. In addition, such accounts often overlook the significance of the professional, geographical, historical and technological constraints within which the Beatles worked, and which shaped their live and recorded musical output.

In this book, Ian Inglis provides a succinct critical appreciation of the group that is balanced, informative and objective. It concentrates above all on the music of the Beatles, the context in which it was created, performed and recorded.

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