A Hard Day's Write, 3e - Turner, Steve
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A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics. Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new…mehr

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A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics. Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.
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Autorenporträt
Steve Turner is the author of Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Hungry for Heaven: Rock and Roll and the Search for Redemption, Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster, and Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, and the London Times. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 26.09.2008

Hinweis

BEATLES. Ihre Welt und ihre Botschaft lautet der deutsche Titel - das setzt freilich voraus, dass die Beatles dergleichen hatten. Eine Welt? Ganz sicher. Aber eine Botschaft? Außer der Welt die Neuigkeit mitzuteilen, dass Jugendlichkeit ein Wert an sich ist und nicht bloß die so schnell wie möglich zu überwindende Vorstufe zum Erwachsensein, wollten sie eigentlich nicht viel. Der erfahrene Rockjournalist Steve Turner legt nun Gewicht auf die spirituelle Dimension, von der sich die Band spätestens seit ihrem Indien-Abenteuer beeinflussen ließ, was ohne LSD offenbar nicht funktionierte; deswegen taucht der Name Timothy Learys häufiger auf als der Elvis Presleys und Chuck Berrys. Man kann das so machen, verliert dabei aber die Musik etwas aus den Augen. (Steve Turner: "Die Beatles". Ihre Welt & ihre Botschaft. Aus dem Englischen von Christian Rendel. St. Johannis Verlag, Lahr 2008. 390 S., Abb., geb., 21,- [Euro].)

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