Title
Meet the Beatles : a cultural history of the band that shook youth, gender, and the world / Steven D. Stark.
Edition
1st Harper pbk. [ed.].
ISBN
0060008938 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Harper, 2006.
Language
English
Description
344 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780060008932
Call Number
ML421.B4 S68 2006
Summary
The band that changed popular culture forever has become so shrouded in cultural mythology that it is difficult today to really understand how or why. Stark puts their impact into perspective by revealing both the personal details and the larger events, examining the ways in which the Beatles' own lives were inextricably tied to the cultural, youth, and gender revolutions they helped create and lead during the 1960s. Based on more than a hundred new interviews, this book offers a fresh interpretation of their story, beginning with their childhoods in England and the effect of the deaths of Paul's and John's mothers when they were young. It documents their special bond with women; the central importance of drugs, both for them and the counterculture they led; why their hairstyles set off a revolution; and the conditions that allowed these four to conquer America.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-328) and index.
The British are coming!
Liverpool : roots and regrets
A communal gang of artists
Astrid, Hamburg, and the great transformation
The parental outsiders : Mona and Brian
Reshuffling the band with humor
First rumblings of a gender revolution
Engraved upon the heart of its nation
Here, there, and everywhere in 1964
Hair, drugs, and rock and roll
Sgt. Pepper's cosmic counterculture
Out of sync
Love is all you need
Growing older, losing faith.
