By M&C News Oct 26, 2007, 12:08 GMT
USA Today claims that Jonathan Gould's biography, called Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America is not just another book about The Beatles but a “textbook-length history excels by providing what's been missing from many biographies: context,” he states.
Providing not just a what but a why, “The writing is workmanlike though imbued with enough creative phrasing to make it a pleasing read,” the USA Today reviewer states.
Leaving the gossip behind, Publishers Weekly states, “Gould elucidates the mystery of the band that changed the course of Western popular music.”
Booklist has said, “Gould's combination group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism artfully places the Beatles in their time and social context while examining with great skill how they became an international phenomenon comparable only to themselves.”
Examining the cultural impact of the times, this book is more a history than mere gossip. Arguing that in order to understand the band, one must understand where they came from.
Harmony is the publisher. Click here to read the USA Today review.
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SuzanneFeb 21st, 2008 - 04:32:19
I am bored. I just wanted to be the first one to post.:)
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