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Best books for Beatles musicology
15 September 2020
5.37am
JohnM
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Don’t see a similar thread active within at least a year, sorry to annoy.

I have:

Alan Pollack’s writings via WWW,

Recording Sessions, Lewissohn,

Complete Scores, ed. all,

Beatles as Musicians, Everett.

I recently received the last book and it’s really awesome.  I want to make sure any worthwhile related material or essential tomes for this topic aren’t being looked over.

Not interested in anything purely biographical or criticism, more about technical aspects re: composition and equipment (in that order). 

15 December 2020
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Vera Chuck and Dave
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I definitely wanna read something about the theory behind their compositions

16 December 2020
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If you want theory, provided you have a decent knowledge yourself, I can highly recommend Alan W Pollack’s notes.

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~sounds…..abet.shtml

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