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Where the Music Had to Go

How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World

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Where the Music Had to Go

De: Jim Windolf
Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
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This “exquisite” (Salon) and “astonishing” (The New York Times) dual biography by acclaimed journalist Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, and always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles, uncovering how they inspired and transformed each other as songwriters, recording artists, and cultural icons.

From Dylan’s initial dismissal of the Beatles as being for “teenyboppers” to his realization that they were “pointing the direction where music had to go”—and from the Beatles’ obsessive spinning of early Dylan records to their impromptu renditions of fifteen Dylan songs during the 1969 Get Back sessions—the book captures the moments that pushed Dylan to “go electric” and inspired the Beatles to deepen their lyrics. Highly entertaining and packed with backstage anecdotes, Where the Music Had to Go is a deep-focus portrait of a heretofore unexamined relationship, one full of camaraderie, competition, and mutual evolution.

More than a music biography, this is a “revelatory” (Rosanne Cash) front-row seat to the forces that shaped an era, “meticulously [and] lovingly told” (Jann Wenner, cofounder of Rolling Stone)—an unmissable experience for music lovers, pop-culture buffs, and anyone curious about the magic that happens when legends collide. Biografías y Memorias Entretenimiento y Celebridades Música
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This book is well written and narrated. I learned so much about not only the music but the human side of these music icons!

Fascinating writing about the relationship between the Beatles and Dylan!

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I'm about halfway through this book, alternating between reading it and listening to it. The book itself is excellent, but the narration is another story entirely. For one thing, as others have already pointed out, the quasi-impersonations the narrator does of Dylan, the four Beatles, and assorted other characters, are wildly distracting. What could have prompted this choice?

The other problem is that the narrator mispronounces the last name of the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, who pronounced its second syllable with a long "I" sound. The narrator uses a long "e" sound, which is maddening. It makes me wonder if the author had the opportunity to listen to any of the audiobook before it was published.

What's with the impersonations?

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I learned a lot about my favorite musicians in this book and just loved all the stories, but the attempted impersonations were a little jarring at first.
I did get used to them by the end of the book.

Great content! Were the impersonations necessary?

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I was very put off by the narrator trying (poorly) to imitate all the characters as they spoke. it detected greatly from the book.

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While I learned a lot about the intertwined history of the Beatles and Bob Dylan from this book, I was ready to have it over after only a few hours. The book is not a deep or profoundly insightful study of their relationship. The author seems to written the book based on a lot of historical, available news reportage flavored with a few new and original (and interesting) insights of his own. He makes the important point that Harrison, Lennon, McCartney and Dylan need to be considered together, and for that reason alone, the book is a valid edition to the Beatles and Dylan literature. But this book will teach a musicologist (and even lay readers like me) very little that they couldn’t have learned with a couple minutes of Google searching. The reader is adequate, but not engaging, unfortunately. I joined the other previous reviewers who have expressed negative feelings about the readers attempt attempts to impersonate the accents of the Beatles, Dylan, etc. A stronger narrator would have figured out how to make the book compelling without using that annoying gimmick.

This is a classic “light read” that was enjoyable but not terribly memorable.

A bland book about vividly lively musicians

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