The Words and Music of John LennonBloomsbury Academic, 2007 M06 30 - 187 pages Despite John Lennon's immense popularity, little attention has been paid to his work apart from the Beatles. Yet his solo artistry not only illuminates what he gave to the Beatles, but also constitutes a significant contribution to popular music in general. Lennon was able to fuse experiments in technology, instrumentation, lyrics, and musical form into recordings that were both artistically and commercially successful. Few singer-songwriters have been his equal. In this long overdue investigation, authors Ben Urish and Ken Bielen give Lennon's artistry the opportunity to speak for itself. After a brief biographical introduction, chronologically arranged chapters discuss his incredible body of work album-by-album and single-by-single. A discography and annotated bibliography conclude the book. |
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... create must have been in his mind when he gave the Rolling Stone interview two months after the recordings were made ... creates a wide variety of accompaniments to Ono's now echoed vocals . Other numbers use the natural sounds of birds ...
... create a new holiday standard as he had tried to create a new protest standard in " Give Peace a Chance , " Lennon came up with his fourth single of the year . His timing was a bit off , however , and the single , originally on holiday ...
... create music , and he did much more than solely create music as a Beatle . As horribly curtailed as his life was , and even with almost half a decade of his career not professionally active , he still created a body of work that ...
Contents
The Early Years | 1 |
Gimme Some Truth 19701973 | 17 |
What You Got 19731975 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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