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All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release

All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release

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Delve deep into the story and genesis of the Beatles and their music with All the Songs! This one-of-a-kind book is based on decades of research and details the circumstances around the composition of every song, the recording process, and the instruments employed.

Here, we learn that one of John Lennon's favorite guitars was a 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri, which he bought for £100 in 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. We also learn that "Love Me Do," recorded in Abbey Road Studios in September 1962, took 18 takes to get right, even though it was one of the first songs John and Paul ever wrote together. The authors also reveal that when the Beatles performed "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, John's microphone wasn't turned on, so viewers only heard Paul singing.

There are hundreds of photographs throughout the book, including rare black-and-white publicity stills, images of the Beatles' instruments, and engaging shots of the musicians at work in the recording studio.

All the Songs is the must-have book for the any true Beatles fan.

Product Details

  • Product Type: Book
  • 672 pages
  • Publication Date:
  • Shipping Dimensions: 11.0 × 8.8 × 2.5 inches
    (27.9 × 22.4 × 6.4 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 5.8 lb (92.8 oz; 2631 g)
  • SKU010010030 | ISBN: 9781579129521

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About Jean-Michel Guesdon & Philippe Margotin

Jean-Michel Guesdon is a musician, composer, and sound engineer. Together with Philippe Margotin, he has written All the Songs books about the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Pink Floyd.

In addition to writing multiple titles in the All the Songs series, Philippe Margotin has written several other books on music, including biographies of U2 and Radiohead.

Scott Freiman combines his career as a composer, producer, and educator with an in-depth knowledge of the Beatles, and the result is "Deconstructing the Beatles", which is a series of multimedia presentations about the composition and production techniques of the Fab Four. Freiman presents his lectures to sold-out audiences throughout North America and at colleges and universities. He lives in Irvington, New York.

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