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| Title | : | The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970 |
| Author | : | Mark Lewisohn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 204 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 2006 by EMI Records (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Music. Nonfiction. History. Biography. Reference |
Mark Lewisohn
Paperback | Pages: 204 pages Rating: 4.45 | 2415 Users | 70 Reviews
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Really an excellent book. Chock full of interesting information and insight. A must read for all Beatles fans! Yea, yea, yea, yea! ☺️
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| Original Title: | The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970 |
| ISBN: | 0600612074 (ISBN13: 9780600612070) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Based On Books The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970
Ratings: 4.45 From 2415 Users | 70 ReviewsJudgment Based On Books The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970
I can't believe I've had this book for so long and not read it much until now. Nearly every other page contains some great story or detail that's funny or interesting, with lots of details about the studio experimentation that went on to make the Beatles' recordings sound as they did. Unfortunately it makes me want to spend more time and money acquiring all the non-album takes that I haven't heard but that this book makes out to be quite something to hear as well.UPDATE: After reading GeoffMore of a reference shelf item than a book to read per se, unless you're an unreconstructed Beatles nut, like me and quite a few other people I know. Twenty-four years on it's easy to overlook what an incredible eye-opener this was, crushing old myths (and rumored outtakes), shedding detailed light on where the Beatles did their best work, and how they went about it. It's still the essential reference for their recording career.
An absolute must for any serious Beatles fan. Also a must for anyone interested in the creation of recorded music, and how one band changed the methodology for recording within the course of fewer than eight years. Lewisohn takes you behind the scenes and meticulously describes each step of the multitrack recording sessions that created some of the most enduring rock music of the twentieth century. He also tells some wonderful anecdotes along the way.The primary sources are informative and

Exhaustive, encyclopedic... a must-have for any serious Beatles fan. I read it cover-to-cover once, and since then have referred to it many times to answer a question, decide a bet, etc. Lewisohn had unprecedented access to the Beatles' tapes at Abbey Road Studios and catalogs recording studio happenings day-by-day, year-by-year.
I managed to find a used reissue on Amazon for a few dollars but original prints of this book can go for a hundred dollars or more. I finished this book quite some time ago but forgot to mark it Read. If you are a Beatles fan, this book is indispensable to understand how the Beatles worked in the studio and wrote some of the most beloved music of the 20th century in just 8 years of recording. It is a book that I will reference over and over again I am sure.
For Beatles fans I highly recommend this book. While it gets exhaustively tedious (as Lewisohn meticulously documents every Abbey Road recording record he can find), the anecdotes and background information are fascinating. To this day I still get chills reading about the entry of the single day the Beatles recorded the "Please Please Me" album and how they did "Twist and Shout" literally at the end of a long day of recording; the famous version you always hear is a first take, their attempt to
Man, I used to pore over this book when I was in high school, reading entry after entry for hours and loving it. Not just for Beatles nerds, it's an immensely inspiring read for any artist (or person!) who loves the dirty details and false starts of a creative process as much as the polished outcome. I still take out my copy fairly regularly and jump around between entries marveling at these brilliant bastards. I also like to use the anecdotes I learned from it to impress my wary and patient

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