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This intimate documentary reviews the partnership, music, and impact of Lennon and McCartney as composers during the hugely creative period of 1966 to 1970. From the first bars of "Eleanor Rigby" to the closing Abbey Road song cycle, this film shows how the pair barely stumbled in making some of the most joyous music the world had ever known. With contributions from friends Barry Miles, Klaus Voorman, and Maureen Cleaves; musicians Alan Moore and...

"Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood--blighted by his mother's death but redeemed...

"Here, for the first time in print, is the history of the Beatles--by the Beatles. The extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series 'The Beatles anthology' ..."--Jacket. Includes primary...

A cultural and musical history of the 1960s in Britain and America captures the pulse of the era through the music of the Beatles, critically analyzing why the group became a trans-Atlantic phenomenon while discussing the evolution of the group's music.