Category : Theory & Criticism

Beatle Song Profiles: With The Beatles

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Each of the 14 songs from With The Beatles and 4 assorted singles are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique about the music and/or production of the arrangement or vocals, and the deeper meaning of the lyrics.Beatle Song Profiles is a unique educational tool to enable readers to learn about  every song on all 12 albums The Beatles recorded.                                       Sample song profile from With The Beatles                                                              It Won’t Be LongLennon was not happy about the result of the recording of  It Won’t Be Long.He commented:“It was my attempt to write another single…but it never quite made it.”A few years later he would say the song was the beginning of a wider audience for Beatles' music than the youthful throngs that had fervently followed them from the Liverpool clubbing days.He added:“The basic appeal of the Beatles was not their intelligence. It was their music. It was only after some guy in The London Times said there were aeolian cadences in ‘It Won't Be Long’ that the middle classes started listening to it - because somebody put a tag on it.”McCartney compared the juxtaposition of 'be long' and “belong” to the wordplay that influenced “Please Please Me.”He writes in his autobiography:“I was doing literature at school, so I was interested in plays on words and onomatopoeia. John didn't do literature but he was quite well read, so he was

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