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The Beatles Come to America (Turning Points in History)
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by Martin Goldsmith
Sales Rank: 785871
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 208 pages
Published by: WileyEdition: 1st Edition January 26, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0471469645
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471469643
Book Dimensions:
7.8 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
For this latest installment in Wiley's Turning Points series of personal perspectives on defining American issues, music writer Goldsmith (The Inextinguishable Symphony) looks at the 1964 arrival of the Beatles in America to show how the "unleashed, unbridled joy and unparalleled excitement" of Beatlemania "was an earthquake, and we continue to feel its aftershocks forty years later." Goldsmith clearly expresses his love of the Fab Four and is especially good at detailing their famous appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. However, while Goldsmith unassailably argues that the group that appeared on TV in 1964 was an act that had been honed during four previous years of hard work, he devotes the first half of the book to proving that point by giving a short history of their entire early career, including childhoods as well as the tough tours of Hamburg and England, where they forged their style. For someone who has never heard of the Beatles (if such a human being exists), this may be necessary, but this material has been covered more thoroughly and with more detail in many other works. The book does offer many fascinating details related to their arrival (such as negative reviews of the band from mainstream newspapers including the New York Times and the Washington Post). Goldsmith never explores in-depth some of the "lasting changes" that he says the Beatles' arrival made in "music, broadcasting, journalism and fashion." A little less Beatles history and more material on their actual arrival would have made this a more effective narrative.
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From Booklist
Despite his book's title, Goldsmith devotes more than half of it to the Beatles' early years. Once he reaches the pivotal year of 1964, he explains how, arriving in New York 11 weeks after President Kennedy's assassination, the Beatles filled, perhaps surprisingly, a cultural need of a mourning nation. He notes that, as the young fans grew older, they realized their elders had been wrong on the two most important calls of the 1960s, the Beatles and Vietnam. There is little new here. The Beatles' story has been recounted countlessly, and Goldsmith, former host of NPR's classical-music program, Performance Today, offers surprisingly little musicological insight. His concise, useful account of the Beatles' career and impact should, however, find ready homes in libraries that somehow avoided acquiring many of the multitude of Beatles books published during the last few decades. Gordon Flagg
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Reader Reviews
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.
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