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Beatlemania Forever: The Beatles Encyclopedia
An A-to-Z reference to The Beatles, this comprehensive book includes information on everything related to their careers such as awards, recordings, tours, concerts, television appearances, and films. Going beyond the history of the band, it also covers the former members’ solo careers, their personal lives, and has entries for other people who were connected to the band—friends, family, producers, promoters, writers, and journalists—making this a one-stop resource for all subjects related to The Beatles. .
Price: $18.17
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World
It starts in the housing projects and school playgrounds of Liverpool, where four boys would discover themselves--and a new form of music called rock 'n roll. It takes us from the famous first meeting between John and Paul, to the clubs of Liverpool and Germany when George and Ringo join the band, down Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, to America and the height of the Beatles' success--when they were still teenagers. In Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, Spitz recreates the thrills, tears and magic of his New York Times bestselling adult biography, but in a style and format that's accesible for young readers. This book includes photos, sidebars and graphic elements. It's a book about teens who changed the world. .
Price: $10.69
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We're Going to See The Beatles!: An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There
Comprised of fans’ anecdotes, photographs, personal stories, and mementos, the contributors’ stories reconstruct the entire history of Beatlemania in America, dating from the earliest whispers about the group to The Beatles’ appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and from the breakup to the present day. The stories range from hilarious to compelling and poignant—one group of friends stole maid uniforms in an attempt to sneak into the Plaza Hotel during The Beatles’ first visit to New York, one fan camped out overnight in front of a movie theater in order to be the first to buy tickets for the premiere of A Hard Day’s Night, and another attended a strict Catholic school but was so devoted to the group that she declared out loud to her class that she would rather see The Beatles than the Pope. What emerges from these stories is a richly detailed and entertaining history of the profound impact that The Beatles and their music had on their fans' personal lives—an effect that continues to be meaningful to this day. .
Price: $10.14
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Beatlemania, 1967-1970 Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook
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BEACH BOYS vs Beatlemania: Rediscovering Sixties Music
ebruary 2, 2008: #82 bestseller on Amazon.com's hot 100 list in the Music History & Criticism category. Published immediately after the 'Beach Boys' tour of Australia and New Zealand in November 2007 is the first major nonfiction publication from New Zealand-based writer G. A. De Forest. Beach Boys vs Beatlemania: Rediscovering Sixties Music sets forth a polemic that serious Beach Boys observers have reiterated over the decades: that this Sixties group has not only been shortchanged measured up against longtime (it's been 43 years) media favorites the Beatles but is superior to them. Those longhaired lovers from Liverpool shrewdly moved with every trend, reformed from leather-jacketed toughs by manager Brian Epstein into innocuous but very charming `moptops', morphing on Bob Dylan's influence into darlings of mid-Sixties counterculture ruled in a triumvirate by Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, each taking turns at being `counter' to whatever irked them. This culminated in Beatle John Lennon's 1966 claim that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. While reviled through the Bible Belt (much narrower then), the group carried on as popular as ever, except in their homeland, until their vituperative breakup announced in April 1970, when it was seen that--contrary to the fab, all-you-need-is-love exterior--there was something rotten in Apple. Regardless, all four carried on highly popular as solo performers and Lennon and later George Harrison were martyred in turn by fans of the mystique the group and those around them had created. The pristine image remains largely intact by consensus of the mass media, one can only surmise for business reasons. And the fallacy that they improved rock by giving a second-hand standardized version of it, and reintroducing Music Hall, children's singalongs and lullabies, Easy Listening, show tunes, Europop, C&W, Classical and psychedelia as the market warranted, goes on under its own mythology with all the strength of more British blarney in 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Harrypottermania'. Tracing the Beach Boys' Sixties career, focus is on the period of competition from 1962 when both groups were rising--the Beach Boys breaking internationally in fall that year, the Beatles growing through the British Commonwealth and breaking out a year later, followed rapidly by their conquest of the USA early 1964. By this time, harrassed by British parent company EMI and Parlophone's creative head George Martin--the Beatles' record producer and indispensable collaborator--American sister Capitol caved in and adopted the Beatles as its supremely favored act over the Beach Boys: Destiny was maneuvered over Capitol's management and A&R men, who to a man had rejected the Beatles' recordings one after the other through 1963. In its 448 pages the book strives to explain how this happened and its consequences not only for the Beach Boys but American rivals the Four Seasons, an array of popular girl groups, and a score of major African American Soul acts--all striving to maintain artistic integrity in the face of an unbeatable, hydra-headed industry called the Beatles..
Price: $17.95
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From Beatlemania to Watergate: The Early 1960s to the Mid 1970s (Modern Eras Uncovered)
A historical, political, social, cultural, scientific and technological guide all in one! Split into periods that are marked by key international events, this series covers great political and military events, social developments, artistic movements and innovations in the fields of science and technology and shows how they are interlinked. It includes primary sources of different text types, such as media reports, anecdotes, diaries, letters and quotes from people living through the events. It features a timeline that provides readers with an overview of the international and national events of each era, and contains the profiles of particularly controversial, unusual or exceptional figures from each period..
Price: $16.46
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Beatlemania 1963 -1966 (VOL1)
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