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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Tools of Satan, Liverpool Division / Joe Queenan -- Greil Marcus, rock critic -- We Saw Them Standing There / Amanda Vaill -- A Newspaper Article / Gay Talese -- In Love with Gorgeous George / Penelope Rowlands -- A Letter from Vickie Brenna-Costa -- Henry Grossman, photographer -- Good Bye, Mitzi Gaynor / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Jamie Nicol Bowles, fan -- Billy Joel, musician -- Swimming to John / Noelle Oxenhandler -- Gay Talese, reporter -- My Four Friends / Cyndi Lauper -- A Facebook Encounter -- Vickie Brenna-Costa, fan -- America's Beatlemania Hangover / Debbie Geller -- "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, disc jockey -- Sister Mary Paul McCartney / Mary Norris -- Peter Duchin, bandleader -- Anne Brown, fan -- A Diary Entry / Anne Brown -- Springsteen's Hair Stands on End / Peter Ames Carlin -- Fun / Veronique Vienne -- Vicky Tiel, fashion designer -- Tom Long, fan -- Janis Ian, musician -- A Way to Live in the World / Carolyn See. |
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Up, Up, Up / Lisa See -- Joann Marie Pugliese Flood, fan -- Into the Future / Pico Iyer -- Fran Lebowitz, nonfan -- Michael Laven, fan -- An E-mail from Phillip Lopate -- White Out / Judy Juanita -- Renee Fleming, soprano -- Where Music Had to Go / Anthony Scadutto -- Tom Rush, musician -- Thawing Out / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Laura Tarrish, fan -- Screening the Beatles / David Thomson -- Gabriel Kahane, composer and songwriter -- Vera, Chuck and Dave / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Linda Belfi Barrel, fan -- David Dye, radio show host -- The Back of the Album / David Michaelis -- Will Lee, musician -- Why Couldn't They Leave Us Alone? / Sigrid Nunez -- Leah Silidjian, fan -- Independence Day, 1976 / Will Hermes. |
| Summary |
The Beatles Are Here! explores the emotional impact'some might call it hysteria'of the Fab Four's February 1964 arrival on our shores through the voices of those who witnessed it, those who were swept up in it indirectly, and those who, born too late, came to love the band decades after they broke up. Contributors'writers, musicians, and public figures'describe in essays, oral histories, and other ways how they were inspired and changed by the Beatles. Conceived as 'a scrapbook of madness, ' in John Lennon's famous words, this collection arose from writer Penelope Rowland's own Beatlemaniac phase, when she was one of four screaming girls captured in an iconic photograph that has been published around the world. In the book, musician Billy Joel and actor Alec Baldwin reminisce about being kids on Long Island when the Beatles arrived; humor writer Joe Queenan recalls that when he first heard 'She Loves You, ' at age thirteen, it 'was the first time in my life I heard a song that seemed to belong to me';' photographer Henry Grossman takes us into the audience of The Ed Sullivan Show'where the Beatles first appeared'and then on tour with the band. The Beatles Are Here! is a celebration of the myth, the reality, the phenomenon, the era. Where did the Beatles take us, what did they deliver us from, and finally, what do they mean to us now' |
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Presents an exploration of the Fab Four's arrival in the U.S. featuring essays and interviews from writers, musicians, and fans on how they were inspired and changed by the Beatles. |
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Beatles -- Influence.
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Beatles. |
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Rock music fans -- United States.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Rock music fans. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Rowlands, Penelope. Beatles are here! Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014 9781616203504 (DLC) 2013033601 (OCoLC)841896946 |
| ISBN |
9781616203610 : $15.95 |
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1616203617 : $15.95 |
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