Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers
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Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers
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More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their songs have been recorded and performed. Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves. But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest songs of The Beatles after they called it quits.
Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs in each solo career and organizes them into fantasy albums they might have formed had the legendary group stayed together. This romp through the post–Beatles history of each artist delves into the circumstances behind the composition, recording, and reception of each work, offering a refreshing take on how spectacular much of The Beatles’ second act truly is.
Jackson assesses the more than seventy albums and nine hundred songs the four collectively released, selecting the crème de la crème of their output. Still the Greatest brims with facts (release dates, writing and performing credits, and information about production techniques) and insightful analyses of the music and lyrics. In telling the stories behind the songs, Jackson recounts the remarkable influence the Post Fab Four continued to have long after the big split. Both a handy reference and an engrossing cover-to-cover read, Still the Greatest is an invaluable companion for those who thought it all ended with the 1970 album Let It Be.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810882232 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 07/20/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 288 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv
List of Abbreviations xxiii
1 1970: Year One 1
Instant Karma! Lennon 6
My Sweet Lord Harrison 8
Maybe I'm Amazed McCartney 8
Beaucoups of Blues Starr 10
Man We Was Lonely McCartney 11
What Is Life Harrison 12
Cold Turkey Lennon 13
Junk McCartney 15
Every Night McCartney 15
Mother Lennon 16
God Lennon 17
All Things Must Pass Harrison 19
Give Peace a Chance Lennon 20
Working Class Hero Lennon 21
2 1971: It Don't Come Easy 25
Imagine Lennon 29
It Don't Come Easy Starr 31
Wah-Wah Harrison 33
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey McCartney 35
Jealous Guy Lennon 38
Another Day McCartney 39
It's So Hard Lennon 41
Oh Woman, Oh Why McCartney 42
Apple Scruffs Harrison 43
Oh Yoko! Lennon 44
Early 1970 Starr 46
The Back Seat of My Car McCartney 47
Isn't It a Pity Harrison 48
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Lennon 49
3 1972: Gimme Some Truth 53
Hi Hi Hi McCartney 58
Power to the People Lennon 59
Back Off Boogaloo Starr 60
Awaiting on You All Harrison 62
Love Is Strange McCartney 62
New York City Lennon 63
C Moon McCartney 64
I Found Out Lennon 66
Monkberry Moon Delight McCartney 67
Remember Lennon 68
Hear Me Lord Harrison 69
Woman Is the Nigger of the World Lennon 69
Too Many People McCartney 71
Gimme Some Truth Lennon 72
Dear Boy McCartney 73
Crippled Inside Lennon 74
Run of the Mill Harrison 76
Isolation Lennon 76
Dear Friend McCartney 78
Behind That Locked Door Harrison 79
How? Lennon 80
Ram On McCartney 81
Angela Lennon 82
Mama's Little Girl McCartney 83
Oh My Love Lennon 84
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Harrison 84
Hold On Lennon 85
Tomorrow McCartney 86
4 1973: Everest 89
Live and Let Die McCartney 91
Mind Games Lennon 92
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) Harrison 94
I'm the Greatest Starr 96
Helen Wheels McCartney 97
Bring On the Lucie (Freeda Peeple) Lennon 98
You're Sixteen Starr 99
My Love McCartney 101
Only People Lennon 102
Jet McCartney 103
Don't Let Me Wait Too Long Harrison 104
Out the Blue Lennon 105
Photograph Starr 107
Band on the Run McCartney 107
5 1974: Lost Weekends 111
Whatever Gets You thru the Night Lennon 115
Junior's Farm McCartney 116
Oh My My Starr 117
Dark Horse Harrison 118
Let Me Roll It McCartney 120
Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) Lennon 120
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five McCartney 122
Scared Lennon 122
Mrs. Vandebilt McCartney 123
Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out) Lennon 124
Picasso's Last Words McCartney 126
(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna Starr 128
Country Dreamer McCartney 129
#9 Dream Lennon 130
6 1976: Pizza and Fairy Tales 133
Let 'Em In McCartney 137
Stand by Me Lennon 137
Listen to What the Man Said McCartney 139
Slippin' and Slidin' Lennon 140
Ain't That a Shame Lennon 140
Silly Love Songs McCartney 141
This Song Harrison 143
Snookeroo Starr 144
Going Down on Love Lennon 145
This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying) Harrison 146
Sally G McCartney 147
Beautiful Girl Harrison 148
What You Got Lennon 149
You Gave Me The Answer McCartney 150
7 1980: Other Plans 153
(Just Like) Starting Over Lennon 156
Girls' School McCartney 157
Cafe on the Left Bank McCartney 157
Blow Away Harrison 158
Woman Lennon 159
I'm Losing You Lennon 159
Coming Up McCartney 161
Attention Starr 162
With a Little Luck McCartney 163
Dear Yoko Lennon 164
London Town McCartney 165
Beautiful Boy Lennon 166
Mull of Kintyre McCartney 167
Watching the Wheels Lennon 168
8 1985: Borrowed Time 171
Borrowed Time Lennon 175
Take It Away McCartney 176
All Those Years Ago Harrison 177
In My Car Starr 179
No More Lonely Nights McCartney 180
I'm Stepping Out Lennon 181
The Pound Is Sinking McCartney 182
I Don't Wanna Face It Lennon 183
Wanderlust McCartney 184
Cleanup Time Lennon 185
I Don't Want to Do It Harrison 187
Grow Old with Me Lennon 188
Here Today McCartney 189
Nobody Told Me Lennon 192
9 1989: When we was Fab 195
Got My Mind Set on You Harrison 199
Move Over Busker McCartney 200
Handle with Care The Traveling Wilburys 201
Back on My Feet McCartney 202
End of the Line The Traveling Wilburys 204
My Brave Face McCartney 205
When We Was Fab Harrison 206
Yvonne's the One McCartney 207
Devil's Radio Harrison 208
Picture Show Life Starr 209
That's What It Takes Harrison 210
Figure of Eight McCartney 211
This Is Love Harrison 211
Put It There McCartney 212
10 1997: The Song we were Singing 215
Free as a Bird The Beatles 218
After All These Years Starr 220
Hope of Deliverance McCartney 221
Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go Starr 222
Get Out of My Way McCartney 224
Heading for the Light Traveling Wilburys 224
Weight of the World Starr 225
Fish on the Sand Harrison 226
Young Boy McCartney 226
Poor Little Girl Harrison 227
The Song We Were Singing McCartney 228
Cheer Down Harrison 229
Beautiful Night McCartney 229
Real Love The Beatles 230
11 2005: Never without You 235
Any Road Harrison 238
Party McCartney 239
Looking for My Life Harrison 241
No Other Baby McCartney 242
Shake a Hand McCartney 243
I Don't Believe You Starr 244
Jenny Wren McCartney 245
From a Lover to a Friend McCartney 246
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Harrison 247
Your Way McCartney 248
Anyway McCartney 249
Pisces Fish Harrison 250
Never without You Starr 251
Heather McCartney 252
Brainwashed Harrison 253
12 2011: Ever Present Past 257
Fine Line McCartney 260
Fading In and Out Starr 261
This Never Happened Before McCartney 261
Free Drinks Starr 262
Too Much Rain McCartney 263
Riding to Vanity Fair McCartney 264
The Other Side of Liverpool Starr 265
Mr. Bellamy McCartney 266
Nothing Too Much Just out of Sight The Fireman 267
Some People Starr 268
Ever Present Past McCartney 268
Liverpool 8 Starr 269
That Was Me McCartney 270
Vintage Clothes McCartney 271
Epilogue: Further Listening 273
Appendix A Solo Beatles No. 1 Singles 281
Appendix B 1970-2011 Anthology (The Yellow, Green, and Indigo Albums) 283
Album Discography 287
Single Discography 293
Bibliography 303
Index 309
About the Author 327
What People are Saying About This
I love his book. Over the course of 300 or so pages, Jackson explores the high points from the solo careers of John, Paul, George and Ringo. More than simply presenting release dates, recording info and chart positions, Jackson delves into the inspiration for the lyrics and where the key players were at in those moments. It's a new take on a much-chronicled band.
I’m happy to be able to recommend a new book by a man with the interesting name of Andrew Grant Jackson and it’s called Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles’ Solo Careers. Many of us were traumatized by the breakup of the Beatles and you would not believe how often it keeps coming up in my class on the culture and politics of the seventies. The fellow is pretty smart and the book is wonderfully well researched … With the Beatles having been covered to death, this is really new territory, at least for me … It’s really both quite fun and impressive, though he does not hate the songs I hate and I find this a bit unnerving, given how on the ball he is otherwise. Do I really need to rethink My Love?”