Can't Buy Me Love

De: Jonathan Gould

Narrado por: Richard Aspel

Nearly 20 years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Can't Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II.

©2007 Jonathan Gould (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Not just another biography of the Fab Four, Gould's ambitious, decades-in-the-making volume tells their larger-than-life story and uses it as a lens through which to look at the cultural and historical forces that shaped the band - and its ongoing significance." ( Rolling Stone)

"Fascinating.... An essential addition to Beatle literature." ( The Guardian)

"Brilliant.... Engrossing.... Gould's deft hand makes the book sing. This is music writing at its best." ( Publishers Weekly, starred, signature review)

Best Beatles biography among them all

Excellently written in depth biography of The Beatles. All four lives are deeply examined in detail. Almost every single Beatles song is dissected and reviewed. If you love The Beatles, you will adore this account of their lives and music. The story begins with lots of history that influenced and formed the absolute best band of all time..... from their birth dates all the way until they broke up. Everything in this book checks out as fact.

can't buy me love

very in depth story about beatles and the events that made them the most popular rock band on the world

4.5 Stars-Great Book….but….

I really enjoyed this audiobook. The author does a wonderful job of detailing the events during the Beatles career by telling the reader how and when those happenings fit into and impacted the historical timeline of the 60s. Many Beatles books do not do that very well. The story provides the big picture.

My only complaint is that the author has a complete adoration for Paul McCartney, especially evident during his critiques of the Beatles song catalog. And, the author often gives McCartney the benefit of a doubt, making excuses for Paul when Paul flops.

Overall, I recommend this audiobook. The narration is excellent and moves at a listenable pace. And the story offers lots of historical tidbits that even the most knowledgeable of Beatles fans will enjoy.

awful narrator

...I didn't enjoy the style or the sound or the narrator's voice at all. The book was informative, but his voice was very irritating. He may very well be a fine person.

Definitely not your ordinary Beatles Bio

Having read extensive writings on The Beatles and their tumultuous rise to top of the music industry, it was with trepidation that i purchased this title.

My reservations were unfounded, as here we have an in-depth study of their work, influences and their story provides the perfect backdrop instead of being the main focus.

For example, whereas other books would have spent chapters on John's faux pas regarding the Beatles being bigger than Jesus... this treatment spends a few paragraphs discussing it briefly, and doesn't spend needless time on stories we have heard ad nauseum.

One particular part I enjoyed was the descriptions of the creation of each song, how it came about and s detailed breakdown of why the song is - or is not - brilliant.

Overall, this book is like no other Beatles read I've come across and will delight die hard fans with a new perspective, as well as anyone interested in the tumultuous 60s and the effects it had on popular culture, with a more than sufficient recital of how the Beatles not only fit in to this era but helped shape it.