Revolution in the Head: "Beatles" Records and the Sixties By Ian MacDonald
04 Nov, 2022
Opinionated Psychobabble.
This book is utterly infuriating.
I gave up on the 34 page introduction after only 4 pages. Boring or what?
All the opinionated psychobabble the author pretentiously waffles on about just completely overlooks the fact that The Beatles wrote and recorded pop songs. Good pop songs. Melodic pop songs!
None of them wrote or read music and all the diminished seventh’s, quavers, crotchets etc in the world would be of no interest or understanding to them.
They wrote pop/rock songs and experimented and expanded the art using what was in their heads and transposing this into music.
In the end I had to stop reading it.
It is ok as a reference for some of the more interesting things, that is, factual rather than opinions and downright speculation.
Also, highlighting every bad edit, balancing issues, sound quality, garbled words, and other general flaws started to get really tiresome.
I read it up to Hard Days Night, but couldn’t stand any more.
I would love to know if Paul McCartney read this rubbish.