
Dancing About Architecture
A Songwriter's Guide to the Lennon-McCartney Catalog
Boman Desai(Author)
AuthorHouse (Publisher)
Published on 10. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4817-3013-6 (ISBN)
Description
Dancing About Architecture reveals how J&P's very first song, "Love Me Do," showcased from the start their individual songwriting fingerprints; how John contributed to the quintessential Paulson, "Yesterday"; what makes a Johnsong a Johnsong and a Paulsong a Paulsong; and, among other things, what such different songs as "She Said She Said" and "Good Day Sunshine" have in common, or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "She's Leaving Home," or "Martha My Dear" and "I'm So Tired" and "Sexy Sadie."
Dancing About Architecture traces the individual fingerprints of J&P on each of their 162 collaborations from "Love Me Do" to "The Long and Winding Road," and "I Saw Her Standing There") to the more complex ("Getting Better" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun") to their culmination in the Abbey Road medley; and provides thumbnails for the structures of each song.
Dancing About Architecture is about songwriting more than songwriters and for songwriters more than fans, tracking as it does the expansion of their repertoire through each musical discover from song to song, album to album, and triumph to triumph until elanem were sitting on top of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4817-3013-6 (9781481730136)
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