[PDF] The Complete John Lennon Songs eBook

Author : John Lennon
Publisher : Berklee Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780634017957

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(Berklee Press). An essential guide for all songwriters and Beatles fans, this book explores John Lennon's songwriting genius with a guided tour through 25 of his Beatles-era hits. Author John Stevens explains Lennon's intuitive talent from a technical point of view, through the lens of songwriting's three basic elements: melody, harmony and lyric. He shows how Lennon fashioned songs that were at once politically and socially relevant during the '60s, yet remain ageless and timeless today. Features in-depth musical analysis of: A Hard Day's Night * Ticket to Ride * Norwegian Wood * Strawberry Fields Forever * Come Together * and more. John Stevens is a songwriting professor at Berklee College of Music. For more than 20 years, he has taught "The Music of John Lennon," one of the most popular courses in the Berklee curriculum. "You've got the Beatles' records and the John Lennon records; now with this book, you can have the Owner's Manual. This will tell you how the songs are built and how they work. Good stuff." Marshall Crenshaw, Singer/Songwriter

Author : Paul Du Noyer
Publisher : Stories Behind the Songs
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781847326652

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"Jonn Lennon's life in the years between 1970 and his tragically young death in 1980 were eventful and fascinating. He moved from stardom in the world's biggest pop group, to global peace campaigner and figurehead for radical causes. He left England for a new life in the USA with Yoko Ono. There was a bizarre interlude of 18 months - his famous 'lost weekend' - when John ran off with Yoko's secretary May Pang and descended into alcoholism. Reunited with Yoko, he abandoned publi life and retired to his New York apartment to raise their son and live the life of a recluse. In 1980 he re-emerged with a new album, but the plan to resume his career was cruelly curtailed on that fateful night outside the Dakota Building. This book recounts John's life after The Beatles in a fascinating and revealing track-by-track analysis of the stories behind each song that he wrote."--Back cover.

Author : Philippe Margotin
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1603763716

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In this lively and fully-illustrated work, two music historians break down every album and every song ever released by the Beatles, from "Please Please Me" (U.S. 1963) to "The Long and Winding Road" (U.S. 1970). All the Songs delves deep into the history and origins of the Beatles and their music. This first-of-its-kind book draws upon decades of research, as music historians Margotin and Guesdon recount the circumstances that led to the composition of every song, the recording process, and the instruments used. Here, we learn that one of John Lennon's favorite guitars was a 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri, which he bought for £100 in 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. We also learn that "Love Me Do," recorded in Abbey Road Studios in September 1962, took 18 takes to get right, even though it was one of the first songs John and Paul ever wrote together. And the authors reveal that when the Beatles performed "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, John's microphone wasn't turned on, so viewers heard only Paul singing. The hundreds of photographs throughout the book include rare black-and-white publicity stills, images of Beatles instruments, and engaging shots of the musicians in-studio. All the Songs is the must-have book for the any true Beatles fan.

Author : Paul Du Noyer
Publisher : Weldon Owen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681885865

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This unique book recounts John Lennon's life after The Beatles with a fascinating and revealing track by track analysis of the stories behind each song that he wrote. There are many books about John Lennon's life and about the music of the Beatles. What is often overlooked is the extraordinary solo work that John produced in the final decade of his life, 1970 to 1980, between the end of the Beatles and his murder in New York in December. Lennon's life in these years was eventful and fascinating, as was the development of the music he wrote during this period. For the first time, we will be able to showcase the stories behind every one of his solo songs, alongside the lyrics, which have only been printed in song books until now.

Author : John Lennon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 145846654X

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(Guitar Recorded Versions). The first-ever Lennon guitar tab collection! 13 songs from the legendary Beatles frontman in note-for-note guitar transcriptions with tablature. Includes: Beautiful Boy * Give Peace a Chance * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * Imagine * Nobody Told Me * (Just Like) Starting Over * Woman * and more.

Author : Paul Du Noyer
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781787394438

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Lennon's life after the Beatles was eventful and fascinating. He moved from stardom in the world's biggest pop group to global peace campaigner and figurehead for radical causes. He left England for a new life in the USA with Yoko Ono. He later abandoned public life and retired to his New York apartment to raise their son and live the life of a recluse. In 1980 he re-emerged with a new album, but the plan to resume his career was cruelly curtailed on a fateful night outside the Dakota Building when he was murdered. Upon first publication, this book was the first to examine and assess all of John Lennon's solo work. This updated edition includes lyrics and is released on the 40th anniversary of his death and the 80th anniversary of his birth.

Author : John Lennon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316200816

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A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.

Author : Tim Riley
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1401303935

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In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetéf "Love Me Do" to the soaring ambivalence of "Don't Let Me Down"; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock 'n' roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone. In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.

Author : Tim English
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category :
ISBN :

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For the first time, John Lennon: 1980 Playlist examines the music this legendarily figure was listening to in the year of his creative rebirth, and how that music impacted his life. Reggae, new wave, blues, country, R & B, early rock and roll, ambient and gospel; John listened to it all and loved it all. Readers will learn:* What John thought about punk bands like the Clash and the new wave music so popular in 1980.* That John's eclectic musical taste made him an unlikely fan of Bing Crosby, Noel Coward, and even Morris Albert's schmaltz classic "Feelings."* How Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley each inspired John to write a new song of his own in 1980. * How songs by Queen and the B-52s inspired John to re-enter the recording studio for the first time in five years.* The event that spurred John and Yoko to return to the studio just a couple of weeks after Double Fantasy was released.* The Doobie Brothers track that lent its title to one of John's Double Fantasy songs.* The rock, disco, funk, country, and pop songs John was listening to that year.John Lennon: 1980 Playlist examines the music of an incredibly diverse list of artists that provided the soundtrack to John's final year including David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Jermaine Jackson, the Knack, Kate Bush, Devo, B.B. King, Yoko Ono, Elvis Costello, the Vapors, Donna Summer, Tina Turner, Bobby Darin, Christopher Cross, Olivia Newton-John and the Cars, to name but a few. In John Lennon: 1980 Playlist readers will learn not only what John had to say about these artists, but how their music resonated in John's life, sometimes even influencing crucial decisions he made that year. All of this is placed in the context of the time, the turbulent year of 1980.Even the most jaded of Beatlemanics will learn something new in John Lennon: 1980 Playlist.Even the most jaded Beatlemaniacs will discover new information and insights in John Lennon: 1980 Playlist!

Author : The Beatles
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1458452506

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Learn songs created by one of the most successful partnerships in music! 42 full songs with piano arrangements, guitar chords and lyrics are included, each with their own plain-English performance notes detailing the wheres, whats and hows. Hits include: Across the Universe * Can't Buy Me Love * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * Hey Jude * I Saw Her Standing There * If I Fell * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * She's Leaving Home * We Can Work It Out * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away * and many more.