Beatles vs. Stones [Large Print Ed.]
McMillian, John Campbell2013
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In the 1960s an epic battle was waged between the two biggest bands in the world, the clean-cut, mop-topped Beatles and the bad boy Rolling Stones. Both groups liked to maintain that they weren?t really (3z(Brivals,(S3(B that was just a media myth, they politely said. Yet they plainly competed for commercial success and aesthetic credibility. On both sides of the Atlantic, fans often aligned themselves with one group or the other. In Beatles vs. Stones, John McMillian gets to the truth behind the ultimate rock and roll debate. Painting an eye-opening portrait of a generation dragged into an ideological battle between Flower Power and New Left militance, McMillian reveals how the Beatles-Stones rivalry was created by music managers intent on engineering a moneymaking empire. He describes how the Beatles were marketed as cute and amiable, when in fact they came from hardscrabble backgrounds in Liverpool. By contrast, the Stones were cast as an edgy, dangerous group, even though they mostly hailed from the chic London suburbs. For many years, writers and historians have associated the Beatles with the gauzy idealism of the (S2(Bgood(S3(B sixties, placing the Stones as representatives of the dangerous and nihilistic (S2(Bbad(S3(B sixties. Beatles vs. Stones explodes that split, ultimately revealing unseen realities about the turbulent sixties through its most potent personalities and its most unforgettable music.
Main title:
Beatles vs. Stones [Large Print Ed.] / John McMillian.
Author:
McMillian, John Campbell, author
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Thorndike, Maine Center Point Large Print, 2013.
Collation:
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Gentlemen or Thugs?ch. Two "Shit, That's the Beatles!"ch. Three A Particular Form of Snobberych. Four Yankophiliach. Five Politics and Imagecraftch. Six Wheel-Dealing in the Pop Jungle.
ISBN:
9781611739244 (library binding alk paper)
Dewey class:
782.421660922782.42166
LC class:
ML3534.6.G7
Language:
English
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BRN:
229758
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Large Print | LP 782.42166 MACM | Available |