Haven’t read the book. Sound interesting. I must say that I LOVED the Beatles. I first became aware of music with Elvis, then the Beatles came along and blew me away. They got me to love music - because of my joy from their music, I just had to learn to play guitar, then later on, the piano. Yes, they were pop-rock, but they were a very, very, good pop-rock band. They had the good fortune to get hooked up with George Martin, whom I think is the real genius behind their sound and their growth as musicians.
I grew up in the sixties and early seventies. It would have been a much more dismal time if not for the wonderful music by so many great bands.
You’d probably like it. It covers music from the ragtime era through the Beatles. I love the Beatles too, but I’m also an early jazz fan so I loved reading the stories which I hadn’t read before. And the book also goes into detail into why the ‘50s had sounds coming from all different directions, with so many musical experiments going on at once.
As another one who grew up in that era, the thing I give the most credit to the Beatles, is that they opened the door for the British Invasion, which gave us so much great music from both sides of the Atlantic.
However, I never listen to either their music or the Rolling Stones any more. But I still listen to my personal favorite, the Kinks. Lately, I have been revisiting their early pre Face To Face stuff, and I am still enjoying some their own compositions from the early days. They are like listening to all the other Brit. groups combined...
The sex with up to 15 to 20 different girls a week helped some too.