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With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
With a Little Help from My Friends The Making of Sgt Pepper Author:George Martin, William Pearson There are many (probably too many) books on the Beatles already, but this one is by someone closer professionally to the group than anyone else--George Martin, producer of all the Beatles' albums. With Pearson's help, Martin focuses on the making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the landmark 1967 album that--with its exotic instruments,... more » innovative recording techniques, and sophisticated songwriting--opened new possibilities for rock music and also captured its era's zeitgeist like few works of any kind before or since. Amid a detailed, song-by-song account of the recording of "the virtuoso music collage that is Pepper," Martin recalls his first meeting with the Beatles at their 1962 audition, discusses the band's musical influences, traces its members' rapid progress from makers of simple pop songs to composers of intricate art music, and confirms or denies many established bits of Beatles lore. Until one of the surviving band members pens his own autobiography, this is the most intimate and accurate look at the Beatles phenomenon.« less
ISBN-13: 9780316547833 ISBN-10: 0316547832 Publication Date: 5/1995 Pages:176 Edition:1st U.S. Ed Rating: