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That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love , Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. Beginning with their adolescence in Liverpool, Gould describes the seminal influences––from Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to The Goon Show and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ––that shaped the Beatles both as individuals and as a group. In addition to chronicling their growth as singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists, he highlights the advances in recording technology that made their sound both possible and unique, as well as the developments in television and radio that lent an explosive force to their popular success. With a musician’s ear, Gould sensitively evokes the timeless appeal of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration and their emergence as one of the most creative and significant songwriting teams in history. Behind the scenes Gould explores the pivotal

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Author

Jonathan Gould, Jonathan Gould, Jonathan Gould

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299016910

Category

music

Subjects

History, Music, Arts

Rating

4.16 / 5 (1,194 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14