“The Beatles: The Authorised Biography” written by British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968 with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band’s career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up. It was the only authorised biography of the Beatles written during their career
London: Heinemann, 1968. Publishers hardcover with well preserved, unclipped jacket. 374 pp. With bw plates. Light foxing and tiny spots to edges and some minor wear to jacket. Previous owners (neat) name sticker to innercover. A hint of wear to edges of cover and light discoloring but odeur-free. Overall a good to very good well preserved copy. Jacket now mylar protected. Design by Aldridge
First edition, 1st impression
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Cambridge University Press, paperback, 2000. XV, 390 pages. A bit dog eared and light edgewear, but no markings and overall a very good copy. 1. ed. From the Music in the Twentieth Century series.
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Fine thorough introduction the work of Robert Ashley with introductory texts and interviews with Ashley and including Scores for “Dust” and “Celestial Excursions” and selection of other works from 1963 to 2008
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
