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Title: The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics by Alan Aldridge, Beatles, John Lennon ISBN: 1-57912-058-X Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Visually captivating and useful in the classroom !
Comment: It's very interesting to see how artists from around the world envisioned Beatles songs in their minds. Many of the songs seem to take on new meaning when you look at the accompanying illustrations.
As a former Fulbright Scholar teaching high school English in Korea, I also used this book whenever I taught pop songs. I would copy a set of lyrics and illustrations and then distribute them to the class. The students loved it! It made the song lessons much more interesting.
Rating: 4
Summary: Handsome book, but why the snubbing of Harrison/Starr songs?
Comment: Overall, this is a nice volume which augments the lyrics of the Beatles with striking and memorable illustrations, particularly from editor Aldridge, which very well capture the spirit of the Beatles' music. However, the book contains one serious shortcoming: its inexplicable (and unexplained) leaving out of almost all of the Beatle numbers not written by Lennon/McCartney. This means that such indispensible songs such as "Here Comes The Sun", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something", "Old Brown Shoe", and "Octopus's Garden" (among others) are conspicously absent from this collection. Why? Instead, we get at least a dozen Lennon/McCartney compositions that were never actually recorded by the Fab Four, as well as Lennon's three most famous songs from his early solo career.
Another drawback is that the lyrics are presented in a seemingly random, haphazard order as opposed to any kind of a chronological or even thematic one.
A wonderful concept well-executed, but must be docked points for incompleteness because of the missing Harrison and Starr songs.
Rating: 2
Summary: Let It Be........and don't buy
Comment: Illistrated lyrics my a$*....Personally, I was a bit dissapointed with this book. Let me get one thing straight, I do love art, paintings, drawings etc, but this book is full of the most obscure pictures of random things that are totally irrelevent to the song, let alone depicting the lyrics.
Don't get me wrong, I am absolutly mad about the Beatles and there music, the lyrics and songs, and of course their handsomely good looks (hehe) , but this book just made it seem like someone took a whole bunch of meaningless doodles by un-notorious 'artists'and stuck them beside imagary, story telling lyrics. If you want to learn background about the beatles' songs, this book will take you nowhere . However, if you ARE looking for some unattractive illistrations and incorrect lyrics to beatles songs, you've found your match. So before you buy, think about it....LET IT BE for your own sake, and your wallet's
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Title: Beatlesongs by William J. Dowlding ISBN: 0671682296 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Hard Day's Write, Revised Edition : The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song by Steve Turner ISBN: 0062736981 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Beatles Lyrics: The Songs of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, Beatles ISBN: 0793515378 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Rubber Soul [UK] ASIN: B000002UAO Publisher: Capitol Pub. Date: 25 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Inside the Yellow Submarine: The Making of the Beatles' Animated Classic by Robert R., Dr Hieronimus, Laura Cortner ISBN: 0873493605 Publisher: Krause Publications Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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