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Ian MacDonald. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. 373 pp. $25.00 (hardback).
More than 25 years have elapsed since the Beatles as a group put their final compositions to vinyl. Countless authors have attempted to evaluate the group's importance to popular music while numerous others have analyzed their recordings. This book contains perhaps the most interesting evaluation and detailed analysis of the Beatles' music yet to emerge.
MacDonald, a former New Musical Express editor, includes three main sections in the book. First, an introduction offers an enlightening overview of the Beatles and their place in Western society. Second, the author presents a song-by-song analysis that closely follows the...