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by: Martin Goldsmith See Larger Image List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $0.01 Collectible Price: $19.95 Third Party New Price: $1.92 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922 EAN: 9780471469643 ISBN: 0471469645 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: January 26, 2004 Publisher: Wiley Sales Rank: 829939 Studio: Wiley Related Items: Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World The Beatles: The Biography Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook the World see more Editorial Review: Product Description: When the Beatles touched down in New York on February 7, 1964 for their first visit to America, they brought with them a sound that hadn't been heard before. By the time they returned to England two weeks later, major changes in music, fashion, the record industry, and the image of an entire generation had been set into motion. Coming less than three months after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Beatles' visit helped rouse the country out of mourning. A breathless and condescending media concentrated on the band's hairstyles and their adoring fans, but their enduring importance lay in their music, their wit, and style, a disconnect that signaled the beginning of the generation gap. In this intriguing cultural history, Martin Goldsmith examines how and why the Beatles struck such a lasting chord. Martin Goldsmith (Kensington, MD), the author of The Inextinguishable Symphony (0-471-35097-4), is a program director for XM Satellite Radio in Washington, D.C. From 1989 to 1999, he hosted Performance Today, NPR's daily classical music program. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Beatles 101 This book describes the earthshaking phenomenon of Beatlemania and the banner Year of the Beatles, 1964 when the band arrived in America. Extensive coverage of the Beatles' 1964 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show is given as well as the background of each Beatle. The pre-Ringo years in Hamburg (1960-62) also receive fairly good coverage. Although this book offers nothing new to inveterate fans, people just coming into the Beatles will undoubtedly find this book to be a good teaching tool. ... Read More Rating: - quite unnecessary This is a book in the Turning Points series that feature defining moments of our world. Goldsmith refers to two dates in this book that changed the world (or at least the USA): The Kennedy assassination on November 22nd 1963 and the televised performance of The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in New York on February 9th 1964. When I looked at the title, I expected this book to deal almost exclusively with that period, but in fact the arrival of The Beatles in the US isn't discussed until you reach ... Read More Rating: - What a disappointment! Bummer! As a Beatles aficionado, I picked this up hoping to learn something new about the greatest band ever...I didn't find it here. This book is filled with factual errors and perpetuates the same old myths again and again. Early on, Goldsmith's credibility is shot. There are many errors that are trivial: e.g., "the Beatles wore their collarless Edwardian suits on The Ed Sullivan Show" - oops - AND - the date that Sullivan always claimed to have witnessed the Beatles' tumultuous Heathrow reception ... Read More Rating: - Sheer Poetry! First of all, it must be stated emphatically that carioca04 (see below) is both vicious and wrong. Goldsmith never states that the Beatles wore Edwardian suits on Ed Sullivan, never states that Sullivan didn't witness the Beatles at Heathrow on October 31, 1963, and never states that the Beatles' concerts in America were bigger than earlier concerts in London. As to Sid Bernstein, respected Beatle historians from Hunter Davies to Alan Cozinn point to Bernstein's importance in the story. Carioca04 ... Read More Rating: - So good it made me cry! I thought I knew a fair amount about the Beatles but this wonderful book filled in so many gaps in my knowledge of the band's early years. The story of those magical two weeks in February '64 is told compellingly and with fine detail but also with deep emotion. And the book's concluding pages, with the author sitting in the churchyard in Liverpool where it all began, moved me to tears. A great book worthy of its subject! see more Browse for similar items by category: Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - All Amazon Upgrade Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Biographies & Memoirs Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Entertainment Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - History Amazon Upgrade - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Nonfiction