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Fully updated classic of popular criticism of the world s most popular songs from the world s most popular group The Beatles

About the Author

Ian MacDonald was born in 1948. A writer with many interests, he was Assistant Editor of the New Musical Express during 1972-5. He has also worked as a songwriter and record producer, and is the author of The New Shostakovich, The People's Music and The Beatles at No. 1.He died in 2003.

Reviews

"MacDonald's inspired critique has become the work against which all other Beatles books are measured."
--"Observer"

"Arguably the most indispensable Beatles book ever published has just become more indispensable."
--"Uncut"

"A triumph -- compelling, seductive, delightful."
--Nick Hornby