Everett, Walter - What Goes On

In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s. Walter Everett and Tim Riley's What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time blends historical narrative, musicology, and music analysis to tell the full story of the Beatles and how they redefined pop music.

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CONTENTS

Preface
Contents of Beatle videos
Prologue: Who Were the Beatles?
Introduction - Revolt Into Sound: Race, Class, Generation Divide and Gender Dominate Pre-Beatles Rock 'n' Roll
John Lennon Discovers Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley and Other First-generation Rockers
The Beatles on the BBC
From Performance to Production and Poetic Concept
Chapter 1 - The Quarry Men (1940-1960)
A Pre-history
The Quarry Men
Becoming the Beatles: In Spite of All the Danger
Early Paying Gigs
Chapter 2 - The Pete Best Era (1961-1962)
1961-62 Original Releases
The Cavern, My Bonnie and Brian Epstein
Recording for EMI: George Martin
Please Please Me
Chapter 3 - Runaway Train: British Beatlemania (1963)
1963 British Releases
The Rise to National Prominence: Please Please Me
I Saw Her Standing There
There's A Place
Growth as Musicians
She Loves You
With the Beatles and I Want to Hold Your Hand
All I've Got to Do
Not a Second Time
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Beatlemania Officially Recognized
Chapter 4 - Instant Combustion: World Embrace (1964)
Storming the States
1964 Original Releases
A Hard Day's Night
I Should Have Known Better
If I Fell
Things We Said Today
I'll Be Back
I Call Your Name
World Tour and Further Recording: Beatles for Sale
Chapter 5 - Repeat with a Twist (1965)
1965 Original Releases
The Beatles and the Changing Global Culture of 1965
Ticket to Ride
Help!
The Night Before, Another Girl
Yesterday
The Beatles as Live Performers
We Can Work It Out
Day Tripper
Rubber Soul
You Won't See Me
Michelle
Chapter 6 - From the Stage to the Studio (1966)
The Final Tours
Revolver
Here, There and Everywhere
And Your Bird Can Sing
Doctor Robert
Paperback Writer
Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
Chapter 7 - Celebrity Psychedelia (1967)
1967 British Releases
The Summer of Love
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
A Day in the Life
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on the Hill
I Am the Walrus
Chapter 8 - Listening Through a Glass Onion (1968)
1968 British Releases
The Summer of Love, Inverted
Early-1968 Recording Projects and Rishikesh
Apple and Solo Excursions
The White Album
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Revolution 9
Chapter 9 - They May Be Parted (1969-1970)
1969-1970 British Releases
The Get Back Project
Two of Us
Dig a Pony
I've Got a Feeling
One After 909
Don't Let Me Down
The Spring of 1969
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Abbey Road
Oh! Darling
The Ex-Beatles
The Beatles' Legacy
Appendix 1: Recordings That Influenced the Beatles
Appendix 2: 1960s Timeline
Appendix 3: Guide to Multimedia Materials
Selected Bibliography
Index of Song Titles, Artists' and Others' Names, Musical Terms and Concepts