Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles, Britain, and America

A brilliant work of cultural history, musical analysis and group biography, Jonathan Gould's Can't Buy Me Love is more than just a book on the Beatles; it's a stunning recreation of the 1960's in England and America through the prism of the world's most iconic band.

The Beatles, perhaps more than any musical act before or since, were a quintessential product of their time, and Gould draws on widely ranging sources of information and imagination to show the unique part they played in the shaping of post-war Britain and America.

Gould examines the influence of R&B, rockabilly, skiffle and Motown as the Fab Four forged a sound of their own; he illuminates the mercurial relationship - the most productive and lucrative in the history of popular music - between John Lennon and Paul McCartney; he critiques the songs they played and the movies they made, and their impact on competing bands and musicians, as well as on fashion, hairstyles, and humour; and he shows how events on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Angry Young Man movement of John Osborne and the Profumo scandal to the advent of television and the assassination of John F Kennedy - created exactly the right cultural climate for the biggest music phenomenon of 20th century.

Beautifully written, insightful, and wonderfully evocative, Can't Buy Me Love is magisterial biography by a popular historian of the very first rank.

Jonathan Gould has been researching and writing Can't Buy Me Love for more than fifteen years. He was a professional musician for over a decade before devoting himself to writing full time. He lives in upstate New York. This is his first book.

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