A hard day's write : the stories behind every Beatles song / Steve Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Steve, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beatles.

Rock music--England--History and criticism.

Rock music.

England.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

Summary:

A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics.

Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In "A Hard Day's Write," music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination.

Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves.

Illustrated with over 200 photographs, "A Hard Day's Write" is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.

Contents:

1 Please Please Me 17

I Saw Her Standing There

Misery

Ask Me Why

Please Please Me

Love Me Do

PS I Love You

Do You Want To Know A Secret?

There's A Place

2 With the Beatles 29

From Me To You

Thank You Girl

She Loves You

I'll Get You

It Won't Be Long

All I've Got To Do

All My Loving

Little Child

Don't Bother Me

Hold Me Tight

I Wanna Be Your Man

Not A Second Time

I Want To Hold Your Hand

This Boy

I Call Your Name

3 A Hard Day's Night 45

A Hard Day's Night

I Should Have Known Better

If I Fell

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

And I Love Her

Tell Me Why

Can't Buy Me Love

Any Time At All

I'll Cry Instead

Things We Said Today

When I Get Home

You Can't Do That

I'll Be Back

4 Beatles for Sale 59

I Feel Fine

She's A Woman

Eight Days A Week

I'm A Loser

No Reply

I Don't Want To Spoil The Party

I'll Follow The Sun

Baby's In Black

Every Little Thing

What You're Doing

5 Help! 71

Yes It Is

I'm Down

Help!

The Night Before

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

I Need You

Another Girl

You're Going To Lose That Girl

Ticket To Ride

Tell Me What You See

You Like Me Too Much

It's Only Love

I've Just Seen A Face

Yesterday

6 Rubber Soul 85

Day Tripper

We Can Work It Out

Drive My Car

Norwegian Wood

You Won't See Me

Nowhere Man

Think For Yourself

The Word

Michelle

What Goes On

Girl

I'm Looking Through You

In My Life

Wait

If I Needed Someone

Run For Your Life

7 Revolver 99

Paperback Writer

Rain

Taxman

Eleanor Rigby

I'm Only Sleeping

Love You To

Here, There and Everywhere

Yellow Submarine

She Said, She Said

Good Day Sunshine

And Your Bird Can Sing

For No One

Doctor Robert

Got To Get You Into My Life

I Want To Tell You

Tomorrow Never Knows

8 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 117

Penny Lane

Strawberry Fields Forever

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

With A Little Help From My Friends

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Getting Better

Fixing A Hole

She's Leaving Home

Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite!

Within You Without You

When I'm Sixty-Four

Lovely Rita

Good Morning, Good Morning

A Day In The Life

9 Magical Mystery Tour Yellow Submarine 135

All You Need Is Love

Baby, You're A Rich Man

Hello Goodbye

Only A Northern Song

All Together Now

Hey Bulldog

It's All Too Much

Magical Mystery Tour

The Fool On The Hill

Flying

Blue Jay Way

Your Mother Should Know

I Am the Walrus

Lady Madonna

The Inner Light

Hey Jude

10 The Beatles 149

Back In The USSR

Dear Prudence

Glass Onion

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

Wild Honey Pie

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Martha My Dear

I'm So Tired

Blackbird

Piggies

Rocky Raccoon

Don't Pass Me By

Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

I Will

Julia

Birthday

Yer Blues

Mother Nature's Son

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey

Sexy Sadie

Helter Skelter

Long Long Long

Revolution

Honey Pie

Savoy Truffle

Cry Baby Cry

Revolution 9

Good Night

Don't Let Me Down

11 Let it be 173

Two Of Us

Dig A Pony

Across The Universe

I Me Mine

Dig It

Let It Be

I've Got A Feeling

One After 909

For You Blue

The Long And Winding Road

Get Back

The Ballad of John and Yoko

Old Brown Shoe

You Know My Name

12 Abbey Road 187

Come Together

Something

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Oh Darling

Octopus's Garden

I Want You

Here Comes The Sun

Because

You Never Give Me Your Money

Sun King

Mean Mr Mustard

Polythene Pam

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

Golden Slumbers

Her Majesty

Carry That Weight

The End

13 Live at the Bbc 202

I'll Be On My Way

14 Anthology 1-3 204

Free as a Bird

Real Love

Christmas Time (Is Here Again)

In Spite of All the Danger

You'll Be Mine

Cayenne

Cry for a Shadow

Like Dreamers Do

Hello Little Girl

You Know What To Do

If You've Got Trouble

That Means a Lot

12-Bar Original

Junk

Not Guilty

What's the New Mary Jane

Step Inside Love

Los Paranoias

Teddy Boy

All Things Must Pass

Come and Get It.

Notes:

"Expanded to include Free as a bird and 21 other songs from Anthology and Live at the BBC"--Cover.

"This is a Carlton book"--Verso of t.p.

Includes discography (pages 220-222), bibliographical references (page 223), and index.

ISBN:

0062736981

OCLC:

42793607