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The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music de Hunter Davies

The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music

Autor Hunter Davies, The Beatles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2017

Perioada anilor '60 a redefinit cultura globală prin muzică, iar în centrul acestei transformări s-a aflat fenomenul The Beatles. Astăzi, când moștenirea lor este mai vie ca niciodată, volumul The Beatles Lyrics ne propune o incursiune tactilă și vizuală în intimitatea creatoare a celor patru din Liverpool. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit calitatea de arhivă a acestei ediții: nu este doar o culegere de texte, ci un muzeu portabil ce reunește peste 100 de manuscrise reproduse după însemnările originale, recuperate din colecții private și instituții de prestigiu.

Subliniem valoarea documentară a lucrării, unde Hunter Davies — singurul biograf care a primit acces deplin în universul lor în 1967 — decodează procesul de scriere din spatele unor piese fundamentale. Reținem cum versurile pentru „Yesterday” sau „Eleanor Rigby” încetează să fie simple rânduri tipărite, devenind dovezi vii ale corecturilor, ezitărilor și inspirației de moment. Colecționarii care au apreciat The Lyrics de Paul McCartney vor găsi aici aceeași calitate de reproducere și o rigoare istorică similară, însă privită prin lentila obiectivă a biografului care a fost martor la transformarea muzicii pop în artă.

Spre deosebire de A Hard Day's Write de Steve Turner, care se concentrează pe sursele de inspirație externe, volumul lui Davies pune accent pe materialitatea scrisului. Textul ne poartă cronologic prin întreaga discografie, oferind o experiență senzorială rară: aceea de a „vedea” cum se naște un vers pe un colț de hârtie sau pe un șervețel. Este o lucrare ce completează armonios bibliografia autorului, făcând trecerea de la biografia narativă la o analiză aplicată a operei lor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474606875
ISBN-10: 1474606873
Pagini: 405
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă cum ideile abstracte devin imnuri generaționale. Cititorul câștigă acces la documente care, în mod normal, sunt închise în seifurile muzeelor. Recomandăm volumul pentru perspectiva unică a lui Hunter Davies, care nu doar analizează versurile, ci povestește contextul uman în care au fost scrise, oferind o lecție fascinantă despre creativitate, prietenie și rigoare artistică.

Despre autor

Hunter Davies este un renumit jurnalist și scriitor britanic, cunoscut la nivel mondial pentru redactarea singurei biografii autorizate a trupei The Beatles în 1968. Cu o carieră de peste cinci decenii, a publicat peste 30 de cărți, variind de la biografii istorice precum Columbus și Wordsworth, până la memorii personale ca A Life in the Day. Experiența sa de 18 luni petrecute în cercul intim al trupei începând cu 1967 i-a oferit o autoritate incontestabilă în documentarea istoriei grupului, temă pe care a explorat-o și în Davies, H: Beatles Book.

Descriere

Over 100 handwritten manuscripts of the Beatles' original lyrics, tracked down from friends of the band, museums, universities and collectors.

Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of the Beatles, worked with the band in their heyday. Here he reveals each song's context with vivid behind-the-scenes stories and gives a unique insight into the creative process of the world's greatest songwriters. From 'Yesterday' and 'Eleanor Rigby' to 'Yellow Submarine', The Beatles Lyrics is the definitive story of the band, uniquely told through their music.

Recenzii

[Davies] has managed to track down handwritten versions for 100 of the band's 182 lyrics, and it's undeniably fascinating to observe these scribbled seeds, particularly when they contain alterations, crossings-out and abandoned verses... The other main attraction of the book is Davies' unrivalled access to the group. As the only authorised Beatles biographer during the band's existence, he spent time observing Lennon and McCartney as they wrote songs, and his vivid account of the pair holding court amongst friends in the latter's music room... is just one of several fascinating behind-the-scenes moments
Painstakingly researched and skilfully laid out over 350 engrossing pages, Davies gives us an incredible insight into the remarkable creative process of the band, and tells the story of the Beatles' lives through their work
Davies has tracked down and reproduced more than 100 of the Beatles' original handwritten manuscripts for their songs, nearly all of which are reproduced for the first time in this handsome coffee-table tome. Each song is given its context: what the band were doing at the time, how and when they came to write and record it, how the original version differs from the final one. A pretty essential addition to the library/bathroom of any serious Beatles fan
This is not just one for the Beatlemaniacs and it is liberally illustrated with lyrics as they were originally written on table napkins, notepads, or on the back of a birthday card
What's amazing is that these songs were so often scribbled down on whatever bits of paper were at hand - pages from notebooks, hotel stationery, backs of envelopes - and it's fascinating to see them with their hasty revisions, crossings out, lines being rewritten, ideas rethought even before they are fully complete, almost as if The Beatles can't keep up with their own creative momentum, colourful doodles and stoned illustrations accompanying some of them
They were just scraps of paper set for a cleaner's furnace - but now The Beatles' lyric sheets are precious jewels that reveal the secret history of the world's greatest band... beneath the scrawls and corssings-out lies a shadow history of The Beatles
A forensic song-by-song exploration of the band's writing process... If you're a songwriter, the song manuscripts along are fascinating, and if you're a Beatles fan, the info here can't help but give you a fresh insight into their music
No Lennon/McCartney obsessive should be without Hunter Davies' The Beatles Lyrics
Fascinating facsimiles of scribbled lyric notes jotted onto scraps of paper... afford insights into the development from the germ of an idea to a finished song
He wrote the first comprehensive biography of The Beatles and now, in The Beatles Lyrics, Hunter Davies returns to examine each of the band's songs in forensic details, offering insights into the creative process and putting the songs in their social and personal context
A fascinating look at how these classics came into being as the manuscripts show how lines were altered and whole verses dumped
This delightful book will appeal to the millions of Beatles fans around the world who will surely enjoy reliving these iconic songs and learning something of their history
Even fans who think they know it all already will treasure this forensic exploration of the Beatles' songs...a handsome coffee-table book by Hunter Davies that manages to shed new light on the creative process behind such songs as Eleanor Rigby, Across the Universe and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds...a treasure of a book, a forensic, song-by-song exploration of the band's creative process
You may never read a more comprehensive, unpretentious account of the creative processes behind a band's body of lyrics. It seems fitting that band should be The Beatles... The book runs chronologically from A to Z through every self-penned song the Beatles recorded in their eight action-packed years together. With all those original handwritten manuscripts, it's a must buy for die-hard Beatles fans and, no doubt, many calligraphers too