The Beatles: The BBC Archives: 1962-1970 Author: Visit Amazon's Kevin Howlett Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0062288539 | Format: PDF
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About the Author
BBC producer and author Kevin Howlett has been closely associated with The Beatles throughout his career. He has previously written three books about them, and has made radio documentaries for Apple Corps. He wrote the booklet essays for all fourteen of The Beatles' albums remastered in 2009, and he wrote the notes and produced the 'Fly On The Wall' bonus disc for the 2003 Beatles remixed album Let It Be ...Naked.
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- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Harper Design (October 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062288539
- ISBN-13: 978-0062288530
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.8 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
"The Beatles: The BBC Archives" by Kevin Howlett is a collection of the transcripts of The Beatles' appearances on BBC Radio/Television from 1962 to 1970.
Kevin Howlett who is recognized expert on group appearances on the BBC spent three decades of his career writing about The Beatles, and also running a radio show where he was discussing their appearances on BBC.
Therefore, this book can be considered as collection of everything on which he worked his entire professional career.
He nicely presented his book dividing it into several chapters, each covering one year of their career, from 1962 up to the 1970; each chapter starts with an introduction on two pages where author is describing what were the major events that marked that year in States, UK and worldwide, not only in music, but also what was happening in movies, TV, even politics.
After this brief prelude, each chapter is providing chronologically listed appearances of The Beatles during particular year, how and why they were on the BBC radio or TV programs, intertwining it with the transcripts of interviews that were conducted during these appearances.
Due to the reason that they stop appearing in radio and TV from year 1965, it was very interesting to read about their interviews in remaining years that were given by group members in special circumstances.
In this part of book even readers which are very familiar with The Beatles will be able to learn some new information about group like for example who decided for group to stop appearing in media.
In last part of book, reader will find nice list of people and songs that impacted The Beatles, starting from Motown singers, Chuck Berry, Elvis and some more which are not so famous to general public.
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