Courrier examines how some of the darker elements of America's cultural revolution were provoked by, and filtered through, the Beatles's Utopian dreams.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: STEP INSIDE LOVE PROLOGUE: NOWHERE LAND CHAPTER ONE: ONCE THERE WAS A WAY CHAPTER TWO: LIKE DREAMERS DO CHAPTER THREE: HURRICANE OF LOVE CHAPTER FOUR: YOU WONT SEE ME CHAPTER FIVE: LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN CHAPTER SIX: FIXING A HOLE CHAPTER SEVEN: TURN ME ON, DEAD MAN CHAPTER EIGHT: COME TOGETHER EPILOGUE: DREAMS WITHIN A DREAM CHAPTER NOTES & INDEX
KEVIN COURRIER is a writer/broadcaster and film critic at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He worked for eight years as co-host of the interview program On the Arts for CJRT-FM in Toronto, and also contributed movie reviews to Boxoffice Magazine in Los Angeles until 2007. He has written about film and popular culture for The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Sta. Courrier is the author of four other published books, Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion, with Susan Green (1997), which is now in its second edition, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa (2002), which won the Finalist Prize for Best Biography at the 2003 Independent Publisher's Awards, Randy Newman's American Dreams, which also won Finalist Prize for Best Biography at the 2006 Independent Publisher's Awards, and Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (2007). Courrier teaches part-time film courses through the LIFE Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto.
Beatles collectors and music libraries must have this different
approach linking the Beatles phenomenon to social change.
*Midwest Book Review*
Courrier has provided a thoughtful alternative to the fawning
biographies of the '60s and '70s, and the myth-shattering exposes
of more recent years. . . . A dandy read!
*Green Man Review*
The author takes the reader on a tour of the Beatles musical
catalogue, almost song-by-song, simultaneously setting the music in
the context of the career and lives of the Liverpool foursome and
the wider cultural milieu, all while advancing the central conceit
of the book, which is that the Beatles' music advanced utopian hope
that as often as not turned out to be fleeting and
illusionary.'
*Reference & Research Book News*
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