Recording The Beatles

Photographs and conversation transcripts documenting the Beatles' 1969 recording sessions for the album Let It Be; the album was originally intended to be titled Get Back. Illustrated throughout with the photographs of Ethan Russell.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) represents the highpoint of the recording career of the Beatles. This is a detailed study of this album, and it demonstrates how serious discussion of popular music can be undertaken without failing either the approach or the music.

The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life–composition, performance, recording and reception histories–from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965.

Photographs and conversation transcripts documenting the Beatles' 1969 recording sessions for the album Let It Be; the album was originally intended to be titled Get Back. Illustrated throughout with the photographs of Ethan Russell.

(Drum Play-Along). Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along Series . Just follow the drum notation, listen to the audio to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included for quick reference.

Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A "masterful" tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review).