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Biographical note
Ian MacDonald was born in 1948. A writer with many interests, he was Assistant Editor of the New Musical Express during 1972-5. He has also worked as a songwriter and record producer, and is the author of The New Shostakovich, The People's Music and The Beatles at No. 1.He died in 2003.His essays are a brilliant summation of the cultural sea change that the Beatles benefitted from and helped to create, and it also contains a clear-headed and unsentimental review of every song they recorded.
- Paul Hanley, The Big Issue
The finest piece of fabs scholarship ever published
Mojo
The masterpiece The Beatles deserved
- Max Bell, Vox
The most sustained brilliant piece of pop criticism and scholarship for years. An astonishing achievement
- Stuart Maconie, Q
No book has ever taken us closer to the actual music of The Beatles...A brilliant piece of work
- Tony Parsons, Daily Telegraph