Dimensions
155 x 236 x 23mm
This brilliant book argues that in the lyrics of their songs John Lennon and Paul McCartney were talking to each other and other major songwriters, especially Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, about the revolutionary ideas that were to transform popular music and life in the 1960s.
Bob Mason examines these "magic circles" of musical conversations to present an exciting story of how themes such as sex, drugs and rebellion were used to turn the commercial 3-minute pop song into a major agent of cultural and social change.
The book is an exciting combination of biography, cultural analysis and history and will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the 1960s.
