Record Nr.

UNINA9910777955203321

Autore

Courrier Kevin <1954->

Titolo

Artificial paradise [[electronic resource] ] : the dark side of the Beatles' utopian dream / / Kevin Courrier

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Westport, Conn., : Praeger Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-282-42046-1

9786612420467

0-313-34587-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

782.42166092/2

Soggetti

Rock musicians - England

Rock music - 1961-1970 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Once there was a way -- Like dreamers do -- Hurricane of love -- You won't see me -- Let me take you down -- Fixing a hole -- Turn me on, dead man -- Come together.

Sommario/riassunto

On February 11th 1963, the Beatles recorded There's a Place, a dazzling, unheralded tune which was included on their electrifying debut album, Please Please Me. This song firmly laid the foundation on which a huge utopian dream of the sixties would be built. Within that dream, however, lay the seeds of a darker vision that would emerge out of the very counterculture the Beatles and their music helped create. The disillusionment with the sixties, and the hopes associated with the group, would many years later culminate in the assassination of John Lennon and the attempted slaying of George Harr

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00339824