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Author:	Tim Hill
Title:	The Beatles: Icons Of Our Time
Publisher:	Pulteney Press
Country:	UK
Date:	1 Jun 2009
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Photography
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781906734565
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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96 pages. Book dimensions: 23 cms x 1.6 cms x 22.7 cms.

From the inner left flap of the dust jacket:

Apart from a certain Decca executive who chose Brian Poole and the Tremeloes over the Beatles in 1962, most people recognized that the :Liverpool foursome were something special. The boys themselves knew it. They had conquered their home city and Hamburg, and were confident that they were destined for "the Toppermost of the Poppermost". But even the Fab Four couldn't have anticipated that their impact would extend far beyond chart success. The Beatles were synonymous with the Swinging Sixties, defining an era in a way no other band has managed, before or since. The masters of pop were compared with Schubert and Beethoven; Beatles tunes were aired within Buckingham Palace; politicians scrambled to align themselves with a cultural phenomenon.

Beatle jackets and haircuts went the way of all fashion trends, and the mass hysteria that accompanied their concert performances was consigned to the history books when the group stopped touring in 1966. But the music lives on, as fresh, vibrant and toe-tappingly compulsive as the day it received its first Parlophone pressing. When other artists have faded from memory, people will still be playing Beatles songs - here, there and everywhere.

Cover price: £12.99.

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