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The book's main section comprises entries on every song recorded by the group, in order of first recording date, rather than date of release. [1] Each entry includes a list of the musicians and instruments present on the track, the song's producers and engineers, and the dates of its recording sessions and its first UK and US releases.
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
The song is the first part of the medley on side two of their 1969 album Abbey Road and was recorded in stages between May and August that year. The song was the first one to be recorded for the medley, which was conceived by McCartney and producer George Martin as a finale for the Beatles' career.
Alan W. Pollack is an American musicologist best known for having analyzed every song released by the English rock band the Beatles.. He started the task in 1989 and finished in 2000, with 187 original songs and 25 cover songs.
Songs like "Hey Jude," "Let it Be," "Yesterday," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "A Day in the Life" and many more are often regarded as some of the greatest songs ever recorded.
Over the 1960s as a whole, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. [14] " She Loves You", the band's second number-one single on the Record Retailer chart (subsequently adopted as the UK Singles Chart), [15] became the best-selling single in UK chart history, a position it retained until 1978. [16]
For a brief moment Thursday morning, it seemed as if Beatlemania was back. On the stroke of 10 a.m. ET, the Fab Four debuted “Now and Then” — the band’s first new song in 27 years, and ...
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was the last Beatles song from the group's official canon to be included on an album, issued on an LP for the first time on Rarities (which had been included as a bonus disc in the British and American boxed set, The Beatles Collection in 1978, and released separately as an album in the United Kingdom in ...