- Title:
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Can't Buy Me Love
- Written by:
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Jonathan Gould
- Read by:
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Richard Aspel
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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24
- Duration:
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29 hours 52 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2013
- Available Date:
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April 28 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743153819
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Musician; Rock
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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"Not just another biography of the Fab Four, Gould's ambitious, decades-in-the-making volume tells their larger-than-life story and uses it as a lens through which to look at the cultural and historical forces that shaped the band – and its ongoing significance."
Rob Waterhouse
"An involving, wildly intelligent book that allows us to experience anew the band's great moment in all its glorious, world-shaking velocity."
Los Angeles Confidential Magazine
Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism.
That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise.
Can’t Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II.
"Fascinating ... An essential addition to Beatle literature."
The Guardian
"Brilliant ... Engrossing ... Gould's deft hand makes the book sing. This is music writing at its best."
Publishers Weekly