What Goes On

Preface Contents of Beatle videos Prologue: Who Were the Beatles? Introduction - Revolt Into Sound: Race, Class, Generation Divide and Gender Dominate Pre-Beatles Rock 'n' Roll John Lennon Discovers Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley and Other First-generation Rockers The Beatles on the BBC From Performance to Production and Poetic Concept Chapter 1 - The Quarry Men (1940-1960) A Pre-history The Quarry Men Becoming the Beatles: "In Spite of All the Danger" Early Paying Gigs Chapter 2 - The Pete Best Era (1961-1962) 1961-62 Original Releases The Cavern, "My Bonnie" and Brian Epstein Recording for EMI: George Martin "Please Please Me" Chapter 3 - Runaway Train: British Beatlemania (1963) 1963 British Releases The Rise to National Prominence: Please Please Me "I Saw Her Standing There" "There's A Place" Growth as Musicians "She Loves You" With the Beatles and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" "All I've Got to Do" "Not a Second Time" "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Beatlemania Officially Recognized Chapter 4 - Instant Combustion: World Embrace (1964) Storming the States 1964 Original Releases A Hard Day's Night "I Should Have Known Better" "If I Fell" "Things We Said Today" "I'll Be Back" "I Call Your Name" World Tour and Further Recording: Beatles for Sale Chapter 5 - Repeat with a Twist (1965) 1965 Original Releases The Beatles and the Changing Global Culture of 1965 "Ticket to Ride" Help! "The Night Before," "Another Girl" "Yesterday" The Beatles as Live Performers "We Can Work It Out" "Day Tripper" Rubber Soul "You Won't See Me" "Michelle" Chapter 6 - From the Stage to the Studio (1966) The Final Tours Revolver "Here, There and Everywhere" "And Your Bird Can Sing" "Doctor Robert" "Paperback Writer" "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" Chapter 7 - Celebrity Psychedelia (1967) 1967 British Releases The Summer of Love Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" "A Day in the Life" Magical Mystery Tour "The Fool on the Hill" "I Am the Walrus" Chapter 8 - Listening Through a Glass Onion (1968) 1968 British Releases The Summer of Love, Inverted Early-1968 Recording Projects and Rishikesh Apple and Solo Excursions The White Album "Dear Prudence" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Martha My Dear" "I'm So Tired" "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" "Sexy Sadie" "Revolution 9" Chapter 9 - They May Be Parted (1969-1970) 1969-1970 British Releases The "Get Back" Project "Two of Us" "Dig a Pony" "I've Got a Feeling" "One After 909" "Don't Let Me Down" The Spring of 1969 "The Ballad of John and Yoko" Abbey Road "Oh! Darling" The Ex-Beatles The Beatles' Legacy Appendix 1: Recordings That Influenced the Beatles Appendix 2: 1960s Timeline Appendix 3: Guide to Multimedia Materials Selected Bibliography Index of Song Titles, Artists' and Others' Names, Musical Terms and Concepts