Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles

After his two excellent bios on George Martin - producer extraordiniaire and 5th Beatle- Ken Womack chronicles the final masterpiece recorded (mainly) at EMI studios in London: Abbey Road.....45 MILLION copies sold and rising!!!! Extensively researched...questions asked of living participants in this historic time........rivals the work of Mark Lewisohn with a tad more personal of an approach!! A MUST READ/Have for any Beatles fan(atic)

Não encontrei nada de novo nesta narrativa. O livro “Abbey Road” do Brian Southhall é bem mais ilustrativo é interessante.

Buen libro y de tapa dura. Calidad

I found this entire book to be a fantastic read. It's filled to the brim with factual information about how Abbey Road came to be, all of the pressures on the Fab Four to make each new recording better than the last. It mostly starts with double tracking and voice manipulation, but George Martin is due considerable mention for bringing them to new sounds, new instruments and how tape speed played an important part in the final sound. And then there were the many documented problems that kept bubbling up, fracturing 'the boys' into what George Harrison would describe in his song, "I, Me, Mine". Peter Jackson laid to rest many of the "tooth and nail" aspects of their arguing, but the problems kept festering, eventually getting to the point of "I quit first" vs "No, I did" until the wheels fell off the wagon completely. It's all here, from the people who were closest to the action. Much of what has come to pass was not available in the studio until they created it and you'll get to read all about it in amazing and factual reporting. That it all happened more than 50 years ago makes it all the more interesting.

I have been a Beatlemaniac for sixty+ years, so I have read many books about the group, but this is one of the best. I knew little about that last phase centred around the Abbey Road sessions but I know a great deal more now. It is very interesting and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Beatles. Great research handled with sensitivity.