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Can't Buy Me Love, subtitled The Beatles, Britain, and America, is a book by the American author Jonathan Gould that was published in October 2007. A biography of the English rock band the Beatles , it provides a musicological assessment of their work and a study of the cultural impact they had during the 1960s.
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a set of two books combining the lyrics of songs by the Beatles with accompanying illustrations and photographs, many by leading artists of the period. Comments from the Beatles on the origins of the songs are also included. [1] The book was edited by Alan Aldridge, who also provided many of the illustrations. [2]
"Taxman" is a song by English rock band the Beatles, from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying a 95% supertax.
The IRS, which had been investigating Klein for several years, claimed that Klein and Bennett had sold promotional copies of Beatles and post-Beatles albums—common practice in the music industry at the time—without declaring the sales on their tax returns. Klein was alleged to have received over $200,000.
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present is a book released in November 2021 by the English musician Paul McCartney and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon.It is published by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom, W.W. Norton/Liveright in the United States of America and C.H. Beck in Germany.
John Lennon had felt during his youth that "love had been the answer", and had written "The Word" as his "first expression" of the concept. He had felt that love was an "underlying theme of the universe", and that love was fundamental in many things, which had inspired the lyric "In the good and bad books that I have read". [3]
Shakespeare uses a similar theme again with Leontes in his play, The Winter's Tale. [7] The placement of the sonnet leads many to believe that Shakespeare had a direct relation with the "dark lady" (as referenced as the inspiration for sonnets 127-152). Many scholars believe that Shakespeare had an affair and that a mistress was his inspiration ...
All You Need Is Ears: The inside personal story of the genius who created The Beatles (ISBN 0-312-11482-6) is the 1979 memoir of The Beatles' producer George Martin, co-authored by Jeremy Hornsby. [1] The book was republished in 1994. The title is a play-on-words to the 1967 Beatles song "All You Need is Love".