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Can't Buy Me Love

By: Jonathan Gould
Narrated by: Richard Aspel
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 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 Entertainment & Celebrities History & Criticism Music Celebrity

Critic Reviews

"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." (Rob Waterhouse)
"An involving, wildly intelligent book that allows us to experience anew the band's great moment in all its glorious, world-shaking velocity." (Los Angeles Confidential Magazine)
"Brilliant ... Engrossing ... Gould's deft hand makes the book sing. This is music writing at its best." (Publishers Weekly)
"Fascinating ... An essential addition to Beatle literature." (The Guardian)
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My only regret with this wonderful biography of The Beatles is that I've reached the end!

"And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make." ❤

My only regret is reaching the end!

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