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  • Written by: Jonathan Gould
  • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
  • Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
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Can't Buy Me Love

Written by: Jonathan Gould
Narrated by: Richard Aspel
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Publisher's Summary

Nearly 20 years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain 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. Can't Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II.
©2007 Jonathan Gould (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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"Not just another biography of the Fab Four, Gould's ambitious, decades-in-the-making volume tells their larger-than-life story and uses it as a lens through which to look at the cultural and historical forces that shaped the band - and its ongoing significance." ( Rolling Stone)
"Fascinating.... An essential addition to Beatle literature." ( The Guardian)
"Brilliant.... Engrossing.... Gould's deft hand makes the book sing. This is music writing at its best." ( Publishers Weekly, starred, signature review)

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Not up close.

Thought this would of been a up close ,inner circle type story.But it seems the narrator is just reading old news reports concerning the facts that even non fans would know.And when he said ,Elvis made 15 movies total in his career, that just said to me he is talking about what he knows not! In fact Elvis made 32 movies.I know this fact clearly, but i wonder how many Beatles i was fed were wrong?

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