A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song

by SteveTurner (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $5.39

  Who was just seventeen and made Paul's heart go boom ? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? All these are investigated in A Hard Day's Write . Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.49

  Lovely Rita, Meter Maid and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds are as much part of popular mythology as Little Dorrit or Macbeth . Strawberry fields, fool-topped hills and long and winding roads are all part of a collective subconscious stretching from New York to New Delhi. This book tells the story behind every one of The Beatles' songs. Who was Eleanor Rigby, and was Polythene Pam a figment of John Lennon's imagination or a real, flesh-and-blood person? What stories and emotions influenced them and how do they reflect the development of The Beatles' distinctive musical style?