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From Revolver to Let It Be, That Magic Feeling: The Beatles Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966—1970, continues the chronicle of the group’s spectacular career from its creative zenith to its irrevocable split
As the Beatles moved into the mid and late 1960s, their collective and individual musical talent and innovations evolved at an unparalleled pace. Like its companion volume, Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957—1965, this unique work thoroughly chronicles all known and available Beatles recordings during this period of incredible creative growth.
Have you ever watched a Beatles film clip and wondered:
• Where was that filmed?
• Is any more of that footage available?
Have you ever heard a Beatles interview and asked:
• When was that taped?
• Where’s the best place to find the complete recording?
That Magic Feeling answers these and thousands of similar questions. With more than 500 entries, it includes recording sessions, concerts, newsreel footage, press clips, TV and film performances, home movies, radio interviews, documentaries, studio outtakes, home demos, and alternative mixes–all of which are given complete coverage for the first time.
Author John C. Winn has spent two decades poring over, scrutinizing, organizing, and analyzing hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings and compiling them into a digestible chronological framework, creating the ultimate reference guide to the Beatles’ legendary musical and cultural evolution.
As the Beatles moved into the mid and late 1960s, their collective and individual musical talent and innovations evolved at an unparalleled pace. Like its companion volume, Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957—1965, this unique work thoroughly chronicles all known and available Beatles recordings during this period of incredible creative growth.
Have you ever watched a Beatles film clip and wondered:
• Where was that filmed?
• Is any more of that footage available?
Have you ever heard a Beatles interview and asked:
• When was that taped?
• Where’s the best place to find the complete recording?
That Magic Feeling answers these and thousands of similar questions. With more than 500 entries, it includes recording sessions, concerts, newsreel footage, press clips, TV and film performances, home movies, radio interviews, documentaries, studio outtakes, home demos, and alternative mixes–all of which are given complete coverage for the first time.
Author John C. Winn has spent two decades poring over, scrutinizing, organizing, and analyzing hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings and compiling them into a digestible chronological framework, creating the ultimate reference guide to the Beatles’ legendary musical and cultural evolution.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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As far as descriptions and analyses of unpublished Beatles materials go, this one is most certainly the top.
It is as exhaustive as possible, and written in very pleasant prose.
It is as exhaustive as possible, and written in very pleasant prose.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Expanding Lewisohn and Fixing The Holes
27 Aug 2009
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Winn has created an essential reference for the Beatles completist and for the 1960s historian alike. To focus on the latter, so many significant events of the time from 1966 to early 1970 included a Beatle, whether in song, in comment, or in reference. Where a Beatles speaks, sings, or appears, it is noted here. This work places anchors within the chronology.
For the Beatles completist, this book expands Lewisohn's remarkable foundation of work, bringing up to date the day-by-day events as they were documented. Winn also corrects some of the minor errors from Lewisohn's recording time line, fixing the location of Beatles in or out of London, and the studio, through other, documented data, principally brief interviews. Nothing will displace Lewisohn from the apex of Beatles research. Winn serves here to amplify it with further data, some unknown until the last few years.
It is not meant as an introductory history of the Beatles and their recording and touring era. Davies' biography is the better place to begin such a study, but it is the facts of the times, from the Revolver sessions to the end of the band. For example, the development of Strawberry Fields Forever, from a simple song to a lasting work of depth made from two complete mixes in two different keys, is a fairly brief note in Davies. Winn takes it start to finish, and most importantly, lists where to find the various takes and mixes. This is true whether it is included in the official EMI canon, or from another source entirely.
Winn has removed the need for Belmo in the Beatles library, as a reference for the group's work and where to find it all. This is the definitive source for all Beatles recordings and where to find them, boots on or off.
For the Beatles completist, this book expands Lewisohn's remarkable foundation of work, bringing up to date the day-by-day events as they were documented. Winn also corrects some of the minor errors from Lewisohn's recording time line, fixing the location of Beatles in or out of London, and the studio, through other, documented data, principally brief interviews. Nothing will displace Lewisohn from the apex of Beatles research. Winn serves here to amplify it with further data, some unknown until the last few years.
It is not meant as an introductory history of the Beatles and their recording and touring era. Davies' biography is the better place to begin such a study, but it is the facts of the times, from the Revolver sessions to the end of the band. For example, the development of Strawberry Fields Forever, from a simple song to a lasting work of depth made from two complete mixes in two different keys, is a fairly brief note in Davies. Winn takes it start to finish, and most importantly, lists where to find the various takes and mixes. This is true whether it is included in the official EMI canon, or from another source entirely.
Winn has removed the need for Belmo in the Beatles library, as a reference for the group's work and where to find it all. This is the definitive source for all Beatles recordings and where to find them, boots on or off.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Solid research but somewhat tedious reading
11 Aug 2010
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One of the strangest segments in The Beatles' near unwatchable "Magical Mystery Tour" film shows all four Beatles decked out in white tie and tails swaying and dancing to the strains of "Your Mother Should Know" while surrounded by dancers who look like they could have stepped out of Busby Berkelely musical. Who would ever have thought that those leather-clad Liverpudlian veterans of Hamburg's Reeperbahn would have come to this? John C. Winn's second installment chronicles The Beatles' interviews, TV and radio appearances, recording sessions, and other public appearances from 1966 to 1970 and Winn, as in his first volume, has certainly done his homework in covering the territory and listing sources for all the audio he describes. However, what makes this volume a bit tedious to read are the years from 1969 through 1970 when The Beatles musical engine is beginning to run down and John, Paul, George, and Ringo want to head off in their own directions. With the other Beatles making themselves scarce (Paul settling in Scotland with Linda, George producing other artists and guesting with Delaney & Bonnie), much of the focus is on John and Yoko, their bed-ins and other political interests, and John's involvement with Transcendental Meditation, drugs, and finally, his interest in world peace. There is some interesting stuff here: Paul, for example, taking a half-joking potshot during an interview at George's interest in Indian music. Some of what we find here is familiar from other sources: George's frustration at John and Paul's constant refusal to take his compositions seriously; Paul verbally abusing Ringo when Ringo, on behalf of the other Beatles, asks Paul to hold off on the release of his solo album; John's anger when his fellow Beatles fail to see the merits in releasing the second-rate "Cold Turkey" as their next single. All in all, it's a sad story, one filled with the triumph of their critically acclaimed "Sergeant Pepper" album and the tragedy of the ultimate end of The Beatles as a recording unit. Beatle completists and collectors will definitely be interested in this. People with only a casual interest in The Beatles will most likely find this "all too much" to wade through.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
...Takes You Away!
14 Nov 2009
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That Magic Feeling is a nice complement to the Lewisohn book. If fills in on a few of the more obscure moments of the Beatles recording legacy, inclusive of those outside the Beatles that they actually recorded with. It also lists all of the Beatle TV/Film appearances. A very nice addition to your Beatle library. Recommended.
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