Description As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.
About the Author Andrew Grant Jackson has written for Rolling Stone, Yahoo!, Slate\'s "Blogging the Beatles," Baseline Studio System, music magazines Burn Lounge, Mean Street, and Dispatch, and copyedited the Hollywood monthly magazi.
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.
In telling the stories behind the songs, Jackson recounts the remarkable influence the Post Fab Four continued to have long after the big split.
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.
Jackson assesses the more than seventy albums and nine hundred Songs the four collectively released, selecting the cr me de la cr me of their output.
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.
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.
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.
But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest Songs of The Beatles after they called it quits.
Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves.
Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their Songs have been recorded and performed. com More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music.
Description As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone
