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Foreword by Rob SheffieldFilled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course of a decade.Combining data, colorful artwork, interactive charts, graphs, and timelines, Visualizing the Beatles is a fresh and imaginative look at the world's most popular band. Meticulously examining the songs on every Beatles' album from Please Please Me to Let It Be, UK-based graphic artists John Pring and Rob Thomas deconstruct:lyrical contentsongwriting creditsinspiration for the songsinstruments usedcover designschart positionand more . . . .They also break down the success of Beatles' singles across the world, their tour dates, venues, and cities, their hairstyles, fashion choices and favorite guitars, and a wealth of other Beatles' minutiae.
About the Author
John is an entrepreneur, designer, writer, poet and musician. He has degrees in Professional Musicianship from the University of Sussex, and Film and Television from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. John is one of the Directors of Designbysoap Ltd, a renowned content development agency working for brands such as IBM, Discover, Ford, Yahoo, PayPal, Google, the UN, the European Commission, the Bank of England and many more. John also runs a popular poetry account on Instagram under the name AnotherEnglishPoet, and is currently working on a bespoke poster series which he plans to launch on Kickstarter later this year.
