tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post8941182333368861384..comments2024-03-16T18:38:04.996-04:00Comments on Critics At Large : All Those Years Ago - Mark Lewisohn's Tune In The Beatles: All These Years (Vol. 1)Critics at Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-3385407296407648492015-11-30T15:55:18.120-05:002015-11-30T15:55:18.120-05:00I thought I knew all there was to know about the g...I thought I knew all there was to know about the group but this book changed everything. Once you get past the ancestry stuff at the beginning (but in retrospect I'm glad I read that, too) the book goes deeply into places that I figured would never come to light. A MUST read for anyone who wants to understand how an almost unbelievable combination of fortuitous circumstances brought a core of music fanatics together and transformed them into a creative force that still affects Western Culture. There were dozens of stories I'd never heard before. One of my favorites was where literally the "worst band in Liverpool" comes back from Hamburg and somehow secures a headliner spot at a music hall even though nobody knew or cared who they were. They begin playing "Long Tall Sally" with the curtains closed and as they open, the entire venue becomes silent - fistfights stopping, girls quit chattering, and everyone turns and is drawn toward the stage in utter disbelief of the energy they are perceiving. It was the first night that everything they had been through seemingly fell into place. They stomped, shook, screamed, and rocked onstage harder than any band before or since. From that point on people followed them wherever they played. One of many key moments in a really good book. <br />Not sure if anything like this phenomenon could ever happen again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-35295339183594081732015-01-15T11:02:49.933-05:002015-01-15T11:02:49.933-05:00Excellent review. Having only just heard about th...Excellent review. Having only just heard about the two volume "director's cut" of Tune In, I am somewhat torn. Part of me thinks, ok that's a bit long; maybe I don't need that much information. But part of me is disappointed. I just finished Tune In, and found it to be irresistibly fascinating. A great work, full of care, precision, enthusiasm and a living, breathing engine of sustained tension, that I wish I had known about the extended version before I'd read the single volume. Just a brilliant exposition of such an amazing story. I've also read numerous histories and memoirs over 40 years of interest, and thought, do we need another? But there's always been a mystery at the heart of the story which is: just what made them so different, so special, and how did it all happen? I always felt that in other books (even the great Shout), there was background and it would suddenly be "and then it was Beatlemania" and I just couldn't grasp the core. I suppose no one who wasn't there could (and perhaps even the Beatles themselves never quite understood it). But this book comes far the closest. How I wish I could start in on volume 2 right now. Hope it won't be too long...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-27693427774809980322014-10-12T04:07:54.451-04:002014-10-12T04:07:54.451-04:00Well now. It's 2014 and I'm just hearing a...Well now. It's 2014 and I'm just hearing about this book. And I thought I had read them all. I'll be looking for this one to devour! Great review, I was looking for more meat than Hey Dullblog gives and found it in your article/review, AND found a treasure to hunt as well! Thanks, Devin!KittenFuudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07763794663031457600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-86832153322885995862014-02-05T14:44:03.831-05:002014-02-05T14:44:03.831-05:00I just started TUNE IN
Wish I could stay home with...I just started TUNE IN<br />Wish I could stay home with a pot of tea and the curtains drawn.<br />Mr McKinney's article is spot on!Kathi Carneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-15691341241886379082014-02-05T06:17:39.043-05:002014-02-05T06:17:39.043-05:00Great review. I recently finished the book , and I...Great review. I recently finished the book , and I will never look at the band the same way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-83007448565812755472014-02-02T20:31:29.399-05:002014-02-02T20:31:29.399-05:00Thank you, Mr. Harvey.Thank you, Mr. Harvey.Devin McKinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15334142800484018908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-11240962659496192732013-12-19T08:26:11.428-05:002013-12-19T08:26:11.428-05:00Having just finished TUNE IN and worked my way thr...Having just finished TUNE IN and worked my way through a number of reviews, I must say Mr. McKinney's article- review feels too light a term- does as fine a job of understanding and projecting the value of the biography as Mr. Lewisohn did in treating his subject. I'm guessing Volume 2 will be called Turn On and Voume 3 will be Drop out, but...Here's hoping we don't have to wait decades to find out. Kevin Harveynoreply@blogger.com