This book is soooo 60s. Its still fun to look at. As the years go by I am less and less impressed by the Beatles after 1966 (Sgt. Peppers was sort of a "jump the shark" for me). I know they were revolutionary and trend setters and all that. There is just so much rock and roll energy in their early work that is missing from later stuff. All that said, I do like the White Album at least the parts that aren't filler, three sides worth maybe. I pretty much hated the late sixties altogether anyway. Oh, and I always liked Lennon songs way more than McCartney songs all the way up to the end in 1970. Lennon still knew what rock and roll was all about.

Listening to "You're Gonna Lose That Girl." ( )

For me, the Beatles were the musical group of my older siblings. In fact, if it wasn't for McCartney, I would have been clueless about his old band ("Wait...Paul was in another band?"). My friends and I marvelled as we listened to a band that was almost as cool as the Police and Prince. Then as each year progressed, the Beatles became the Sinatra of rock and roll, the elder tribesmen, so to speak.

Quite frankly, I don't know what they were smoking when they wrote these lyrics, but it worked. [a:Alan Aldridge|20139|Alan Aldridge|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1231087730p2/20139.jpg] has edited some very Sixties-ish designs from various artists, with an emphasis on nipples. Psychedelic baby. The colours are deafening, rather like the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics. Still, it all comes together somehow and works as a nice collage of a long-gone era.

"For the benefit of Mr. Kite, there will be a show tonight on trampoline..."

"...Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye"

Que??

Book Season = Year Round (just don't share with [a:Danny Boyle|2741619|Danny Boyle|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]) ( )

There seems to be several different books (or at least editions) mixed up in this listing. The book I own is: "The Beatles Lyrics Illustrated". It lists the lyrics of the songs and has a lot of photographs in the center of the book, but NO illustrations that other reviews have mentioned. There seems to be another book "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" which might be a later edition of this book or a completely different book. I think that is the one with the illustrated lyrics.

Awesome book! All the lyrics to all the songs by the Beatles. A must have for every Beatle-nut. ( )

Gesamtkunstwerk with beautiful illustrations ( )