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  Amazon.com: Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World: Books: Steven D. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Meet the Beatles is a thoughtful, provocative and ultimately valuable contribution to the literature of the Beatles, if only because it points the way to its future.
Yes, the Beatles were the greatest rock/pop band the world has ever seen and represented the first great shift in music after Elvis that lasted until Kurt Cobain came on the scene to wipe away the 20 years of decadence that followed their demise.
The only effect I think the Beatles have had is to inspire other songwriters and musicians to attain the quality of their work and to see the group as the pinnacle of what fame can bring if you have the right look and talent.
www.amazon.com /Meet-Beatles-Cultural-History-Gender/dp/006000892X   (2546 words)

  
  Floridian: Meet the Beatles, again
The Beatles Anthology brings some fresh perspective on the band, the phenomenon and the breakup.
Today, bookstore shelves around the country are groaning under the weight of The Beatles Anthology, the newest and certainly one of the heaviest books (6.4 pounds) ever published about the world's most-documented rock 'n roll band.
She was a wedge that was trying to drive itself deeper and deeper between us." They're pretty frank about the fact that it was disruptive to suddenly have one of their girlfriends in the studio with them.
www.sptimes.com /News/100500/Floridian/Meet_the_Beatles__aga.shtml   (1971 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles
Later that week, "Meet the Beatles," was a staple in the two households and that famous photograph of their four heads on the album cover was burned into our collective memory banks.
But though The Beatles would be a force forever after, the bloom was off the rose by the time 1965 rolled around for me. Oh, I still loved The Beatles, but the fever had subsided somewhat and I don't even remember even seeing "Help!", their second film.
That's the real beauty of The Beatles- when they sang and shook their hair and went "wo-o-o-o-oh!", we were all kids again.
www.loti.com /meet_the_beatles.htm   (700 words)

  
 Book Review: "Meet The Beatles"...Again
With “Meet The Beatles”, Stark addresses that challenge, knowing full well that his contribution to the Beatles lore would need to be unique enough to entice readers, not to mention be able to justify it’s own existence.
The Beatles also helped establish the beginning of a technological culture (‘the recording is the thing’) in which their song writing and recording techniques became more experimental.
For anyone who grew up with the Beatles, who would like a well integrated, intelligent view of their cultural influence and for more recent fans looking to explore this undoubtedly rare and unique phenomenon, Steven Stark’s “Meet The Beatles” is a good place to begin.
www.cyber-beatles.com /Meet_The_Beatles_Book_Review.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Letters: Meet the Beatles (again) - Salon
The Beatles have been chronicled in so many ways for so many years that I didn't know that there was any new gold to mine in that vein.
Most books about the Beatles are so breathless in their worship of them as 'golden gods' that you never see them as the flesh and blood young men that they were.
The Beatles (and Brian Epstein, their manager) are shown with all their flaws and blemishes, but not in such a harsh light as to demonize them.
letters.salon.com /books/review/2005/11/08/beatles/view/index.html   (715 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
was The Beatles' first "official" album in the United States, released on January 20, 1964 by Capitol Records, the sister company within EMI to their British label, Parlophone.
The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer.
In 2004 this album was released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meet_the_Beatles   (249 words)

  
 ALLRS Music.......Meet The Beatles
The Beatles' buoyant melodies, playful personalities and mop-topped charisma were just the tonic needed by a nation left reeling by the senseless assassination of its young president, John F. Kennedy, barely two months earlier.
The Beatles' conquest of America early in 1964 launched the British Invasion, as a torrent of rock and roll bands from Britain overtook the pop charts.
The Beatles' legacy as a concert attraction, during their harried passage from nightclubs to baseball stadiums, is distinguished primarily by the deafening screams of female fans overcome by the group's very appearance.
www.hometown.aol.com /allrsmusic/beatles.html   (1520 words)

  
 Meet The Beatles - April 18, 2005
APRIL 18--Any TSG visitor knows that we delight in publishing documents detailing the ostentatious demands of rock bands and piggy Hollywood stars.
Well, we'd like to direct Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, and Christina Aguilera to the below concert rider, a study in modesty from The Beatles.
The most influential band ever had simple demands when they toured the U.S. in 1965 (below you'll find the group's standard three-page rider and a one-page contract for the tour's Portland stop).
www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/0418051beatles1.html   (105 words)

  
 Adrian's Album Reviews : The Beatles
The Beatles had such a strong image, were so successful that it made other groups start to wonder about their own image and dress-wear.
The reason the beatles are still spoken about all these years after their break up is becuase they are the greatest band ever to produce music and everyone should listen to thier songs to better thier soul and open thier eyes to the beauty that lives within the songs.
Sure, the Beatles were already on a rocky road of group tension and separation, but they came together to deliver their most brilliantly written and produced album.
www.adriandenning.co.uk /beatles.html   (20752 words)

  
 The Beatles
Beatles VI was released in June of 1965 and was certified gold on July 1st, 1965.
The Beatles third release on Apple Records was released in October of 1968 and was certified gold on Octobe4r 27, 1968.
The Beatles last album before the break up, Let It Be was released in May of 1970 and was certified gold on May 26, 1970.
www.whocollection.com /beatles.htm   (1821 words)

  
 Meet The Beatles ... Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Beatles first four US album are about to be released on CD for the very first time.
It began with 'Meet The Beatles' and was closely followed by 'The Beatles Second Album', 'Something New' and Beatles 65'.
When The Beatles were first released on CD in 1987, the formats were standardised worldwide and these vinyl releases deleted.
www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/oct04/20041020_beatles.html   (292 words)

  
 Meet The Beatles
As was tradition at the time, these early Beatle albums were offered in both mixes to suit the needs of consumers.
Eventually the move into stereo became a standard for the music industry, but the trend of releasing Beatles' albums in two version continued through to the end of the 1960's.
was the first Beatles album released in America by Capitol, even though the band had already released two albums in their native Britain.
members.shaw.ca /pfmills/BeatleWeb/MeetTheBeatles.htm   (190 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Steven D. Stark | ...
Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Steven D. Stark
In order to explore the impact the Beatles had on the countercultural world of the 1960s, as well as trace their meteoric rise and ultimate decline, Stark first defines the cultural contexts of England, Europe--Hamburg, Germany in particular--and, most importantly, America.
As Stark traces the origins of the Beatles, he does a particularly good job of establishing the cultural context of Liverpool, the birthplace of all four members of the band.
www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/m/meet-the-beatles-2005.shtml   (792 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
And the executives at Capitol Records, who ordered thousands of Beatles wigs for their sales reps and accounts to wear, were smiling because the cash registers started ringing as never before in musical history.
But America, Stark hazards, wanted the Beatles more, for the mood in that proto-Summer of Love era was just right for the softer, feminized aura that Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr projected -- cause for the music critic Lester Bangs to complain that the only rocker in "A Hard Day's Night" was Paul's grandfather.
Stark is right to suggest that the Beatles were unusual among male musicians in addressing women as friends.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000969288   (662 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles (again) - Salon
The subtext of much of Spitz's book is that we won't ever have another Beatles for the same reason we won't ever have a president as iconic as John F. Kennedy: The press won't allow it.
Lapham presents the Beatles in India as social comedy: the beginning of Western pop culture's suspicious fascination with the East.
The Beatles were unique in that they managed to inspire such innocent fervor while being genuinely innovative, the equivalent of the Backstreet Boys morphing into Radiohead.
dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/11/08/beatles/index.html?pn=2   (987 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Steven D. Stark
Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World by Steven D. Stark
Meet the Beatles answers those questions and more as it examines the ways the lives of John, Paul, George, and Ringo were inextricably tied to the cultural revolutions their music helped inspire.
This is the book for those who have always been infatuated with the Beatles, as well as those who want to learn for the first time what it all really meant.
www.harpercollins.com /books/9780060008932/Meet_the_Beatles/index.aspx   (424 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles with Les Perry
The greatest Rock and Roll band of all-time is heard on KCSN each and every Sunday morning and early afternoon for four hours commercial free from 10 am to 2 pm (Pacific) right here on KCSN.
Meet the Beatles is hosted by Les Perry, himself an avid Beatles fan, Beatles record collector, and former Beatles Fan Club member!
In addition, KCSN presents the Complete Beatles Story (released in 1965), plus Beatles concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in '64 and '65, and the Beatles final performance on the roof of Apple Records in January of 1969.
www.kcsn.org /programs/meetthebeatles.html   (386 words)

  
 The Beatles Are Coming!
Meet the Beatles is the latest and greatest!
Like the Vee-Jay album, "Introducing The Beatles," the Capitol album can also be purchased in stereo for about a dollar more.
The stereo version is neat as it has the vocals coming out of one speaker on some of the songs.
www.thebeatlesarecoming.com /feature.meetthebeatles.html   (720 words)

  
 The Beatles Are Coming!
The Beatles have the top three songs with "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "Please Please Me." These songs will soon be joined by "Twist And Shout," which was recently released on a 45 on a company called Tollie Records.
The Beatles also have the top two albums, Meet The Beatles and Introducing The Beatles.
Most adults I know were impressed with how the Beatles took America by storm, but they think that by the summer everyone will have forgotten the group and move on to the next fad.
www.thebeatlesarecoming.com /blog.html   (1157 words)

  
 The New Yorker : talk : content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In order to test the hypothesis, subjects would listen to two songs on “Meet the Beatles!” while their vital signs were monitored.
To qualify for the experiment, subjects were required to have fulfilled the following conditions: (1) They had to confirm that they loved the Beatles from the moment they heard “Meet the Beatles!” in 1964.
Four subjects, ranging in age from forty-four to fifty-four, were found to be suitable, and were persuaded to give up their lunch hour in order to further the cause of science.
www.newyorker.com /talk/content/?041220ta_talk_franklin   (549 words)

  
 "Meet The Beatles!" Sleeve Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A year ago the Beatles were known only to patrons of Liverpool pubs.
And simultaneously the Beatles occupied positions 1 and 2 in the hit singles charts and 1 and 2 in the album charts --- a phenomenal achievement anywhere.
The Beatles all hail from Liverpool, a seaport city which, because its sailing men bring in the latest hit singles from America, is the hippest pop music spot in England.
udel.edu /~mm/beatles/music/sleeveNotes/meetTheBeatlesUS.html   (590 words)

  
 Meet The Beatles
The Beatles MIDI Homepage focuses on the Beatles' releases in the US on Capitol Records.
Beatles photograhs, images, and pictures of the Beatles group.
Learn about the "Great" Beatles' "Paul-Is-Dead" mystery and the man who secretly replaced Paul McCartney in the novel: 'Billy Shears: The Secret History of the Beatles' by Doctor Lev.
j.webring.com /hub?ring=beatlefan78   (590 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | Meet the Beatles (again)
In his new "Beatles: The Biography," Spitz devotes 856 pages of retina-impairing text to asking the question of how the Beatles did what they did.
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archive.salon.com /books/review/2005/11/08/beatles/index.html   (426 words)

  
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 The Beatles : Meet the Beatles! - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Less visible in the old fl-and-white film footage, but perhaps more important, is a young girl clutching a copy of the Beatles' just-released second album, Meet the Beatles!, as if the world depended on it.
Capitol, who wisely decided that there might be money in releasing the band's work in the U.S., chose original tracks from their second U.K. album and added the contents of a recent U.S. single plus a B-side, John Lennon's ballad "This Boy," to the mix.
This created the illusion that the Beatles wrote all their own material (since only Meredith Willson's "Till There Was You" was a non-original), an illusion dispelled by the necessarily cover-heavy The Beatles' Second Album.
www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,49979,00.html   (555 words)

  
 THE SOURCE - Acetates - Capitol - Meet The Beatles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is where it all started for the Beatles on Capitol records.
Dated December 19, 1963, the album is titled “ Meet the Beattles” on both sides.
The condition is mint- and the label of Master ST-2047 is fl and white, Dub #100-P. Alternate image.
www.beatlesource.com /bs/ac-meet01.html   (69 words)

  
 Meet the Beatles, Online (Someday)! - Portable Media News - Digital Trends
The latest flurry in the quarter-century of trademark battles between iPod-maker Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps shook loose an interesting bit of news: Apple Corps is preparing to take the Beatles online.
Apple litigation, Apple Corps managing director Neil Aspinall (himself the Beatles' former road manager) revealed that Apple Corps is currently making new masters of the entire Beatles catalog with an eye towards offering the tracks for digital download.
For some Beatles fans, this might make the fifth or six differently-mastered "official" versions of some famous tracks.
news.digitaltrends.com /article10080.html   (401 words)

  
 Houstonist: Meet the Beatles?
To the delight of all madcap roadside art fans, his next project is to construct monolithic sculptures of all four Beatles, to be placed along I-10 near Shepherd.
At 79, it is likely that Adickes, whose whimsical work has made him more popular with the public than with art critics, will make these his last projects.
Controversy has risen over his Beatles project because there is no defined connection to Texas or the area, as one might expect.
www.houstonist.com /archives/2006/10/11/meet_the_beatle.php   (342 words)

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