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The Unreleased Beatles details the incredible breadth of music The Beatles recorded but did not release, as well as film footage of the group that hasn’t been made commercially available. Beatles expert Richie Unterberger examines a huge array of material, including unreleased studio outtakes, BBC radio recordings from 1962-1965, live concert performances, home demo recordings, fan club Christmas recordings, and other informal demos done outside of EMI studios. The staggering wealth of unreleased gems encompasses The Beatles’ entire career, from a recording the Quarrymen made on July 6, 1957 (aka “the day John met Paul”), right up to outtakes from the final sessions of Let It Be in 1970. Also includes a general overview of Beatles bootlegs, their songs recorded by other artists in the 1960s, never-recorded material, and more than 100 photos.
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From mid-1970 to early 1974 The Who undertook an amazing and peculiar journey in which they struggled to follow up Ã?Å TommyÃ?Å  with a yet bigger and better rock opera. One of those projects Ã?Å LifehouseÃ?Å  was never completed though many of its songs formed the bulk of the classic 1971 album Ã?Å Who’s NextÃ?Å . The other Ã?Å QuadropheniaÃ?Å  was as down-to-earth as the multimedia Ã?Å LifehouseÃ?Å  was futuristic; issued as a double album in 1973 it eventually became esteemed as one of The Who’s finest achievements despite initial unfavorable comparisons to Ã?Å TommyÃ?Å . Along the way the group’s visionary songwriter Pete Townshend battled conflicts within the band and their management as well as struggling against the limits of the era’s technology as a pioneering synthesizer user and a conceptualist trying to combine rock with film and theatre. The results included some of rock’s most ambitious failures and some of its most spectacular triumphs.Ã?žIn Ã?Å Won’t Get Fooled AgainÃ?Å  noted rock writer and historian Richie Unterberger documents this intriguing period in detail drawing on many new interviews; obscure rare archive sources and recordings; and a vast knowledge of the music of the times. The result is a comprehensive articulate history that sheds new light on the band’s innovations and Pete Townshend’s massive ambitions some of which still seem ahead of their time in the early 21st century.
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