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Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years offers an insightful look into the band's enduring appeal through fan responses, exploring how The Beatles have inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years offers an insightful look into the band's enduring appeal through fan responses, exploring how The Beatles have inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

George Harrison and Eric Clapton embarked upon a singular personal and creative friendship that impacted rock's unfolding future in resounding and far-reaching ways. All Things Must Pass Away: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs will trace the emergence of their relationship from 1968 though the early 1970s. In particular, authors Womack and Kruppa devote close attention to the climax of Harrison and Clapton's shared m...

John Lennon, 1980: The Final Days in the Life of Beatle John tells the story of the legendary musician's incredible last year.

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Provides a guide to the contexts of The Beatles' unparalleled cultural achievements, from their early performances to cultural legacy. Wide-ranging chapters are devoted to the many and varied influences on their lives and works and demonstrate the profound and enduring nature of the band's relationship with people, place, media and politics.

Kenneth Womack's previous books about the Beatles include Long and Winding Roads and The Beatles Encyclopedia. He is also the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography of Sir George Martin, Maximum Volume and Sound Pictures. Womack is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. Follow him on Twitter @KennethAWomack and visit kennethwomack.com for more Beatles history and insight.

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…delivers a fast-paced, energetic tale resonating with today's most troubling and important issues." -KIRKUS REVIEWSAzza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College. As the twentysomething refugee navigates her way among the commuter school's working-class environs in tiny Fremont, Ohio, Azza comes into the orbit of 17-year-old Kip Beck...

More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. This work--the second of two volumes--offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so.hardcover.

More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. This work--the second of two volumes--offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so.hardcover.

SOUND PICTURES offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. The second book of two, SOUND PICTURES traces the story of George Martin and the Beatles' incredible artistic trajectory after reaching the creative heights of Rubber Soul.

As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the group¿s enduring sociocultural influence and achievements.

`Womack's meticulous research results in a detailed analysis' Forbes online

Womack offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. In the first of two volumes, Womack traces Martin's early years as a scratch pianist, his life in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, and his groundbreaking work as the head of Parlophone Records.

Womack offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. In the first of two volumes, Womack traces Martin's early years as a scratch pianist, his life in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, and his groundbreaking work as the head of Parlophone Records.

By day, Tiff Proulx works as a living statue, posing as the Statue of Liberty for the French Quarter's tourist trade in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. By night, she descends into the darkness costumed as the Angel of Mercy, defending and protecting the storm refugees from the thugs who pock the city's wayward streets.

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