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"Beatles" for Sale: The Musical Secrets of the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band of All Time
 
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"Beatles" for Sale: The Musical Secrets of the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band of All Time (Paperback)
by David Rowley (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (9 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840185678
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840185676
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
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Find out the tricks the Beatles used in the studio, their songwriting formulas, the music they stole from others and the commercial compromises they made to get hit singles. This volume also aims to get behind the personalities of the fab four. Find out what songs should have been McCartney/Lennon rather than Lennon/McCartney, about their inter-band rivalries and how John Lennon and Paul McCartney sidelined George Harrison's songwriting.

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I decided to write Beatles For Sale, as none of the accounts of the Beatles music properly tallied with how I heard it or with how they recalled it.
John famously said that he would like to go back and re-record every Beatles song and referred to a handful as rubbish.
Equally no one had really tackled the issue of plagiarism in the Beatles music before and yet John, Paul and George have all openly admitted to it, indeed both John and George were sued for it.
I have only praise for Yesterday, Hey Jude, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Penny Lane, Something etc, but fans of Maxwells Silver Hammer and Rocky Racoon should beware.
Does this mean I do not love the Beatles music? Accepting someones faults is all part of loving them. A fanatic does not accept faults.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly researched and badly written, 19 Jan 2003
David Rowley's book has more holes than a Swiss cheese. Rowley is quite obviously not a child of the 60s and his attempts to compare marketing techniques of early Beatle records with modern boy bands is simply ludicrous. Markets were very different then. Pop music was the preserve of the young - i.e. teens to, at most, early 20s. The Beatles - along with the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who etc. - all aimed at the same market. The fact that Beatle music appealed to a much wider audience helped create the crossover market we have today. The two factors that set the Beatles apart from their contemporaries were the talent of John Lennon and Paul McCartney as songwriters and singers. It was, though, the latter that was more important initially. George Martin did not sign them because he thought they would be the 'greatest songwriters of the 20th century'. He was looking for the 'new' Cliff and the Shadows. In Lennon and McCartney he realised he had two rock and roll singers of exceptional quality and diversity. Listen to 'Money', 'Twist and Shout' and 'There's a Place'.
Rowley's book sheds little new light on the Beatles work and fails to set their career in context. It is poorly researched, littered with grammatical errors and offers no insight for fans, new or old.
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4.0 out of 5 stars They only did it cos of fame!, 30 Jul 2003
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