Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition

Kenneth Womack

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.
In this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.

The first edition has sold over 3,500 copies since publication in 2007

Prologue: The End
1. The Beginning
2. A Cellarful of Noise
3. And the Band Begins to Play
4. Rock and Roll Music
5. The Biggest Showbiz Town Ever
6. War-Weary
7. Yesterday and Today
8. Plastic Soul
9. The End of the Road
10. The Act You've Known for All These Years
11. Roll Up for the Mystery Tour
12. Whiter Shades of Pale
13. Getting Back
14. The Dream Is Over
Epilogue: Long Live the Dream
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index