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

• Autore: Courrier Kevin <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger Publishers, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.42166092/2
• Soggetto topico: Rock musicians - England; Rock music - 1961-1970 - History and criticism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Artificial paradise
• ISBN: 1-282-42046-1; 9786612420467; 0-313-34587-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777955203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II