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As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com!More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their songs have been recorded and performed. Band biographies, pop music histories, song books, and academic titles on the Fab Four clutter shelves. But never has there been a definitive guide to the finest songs of The Beatles after they called it quits.Still the Greatest is a love song to the songwriting and recording achievements of Paul, John, George, and Ringo after each struck out on his own. In this creative history, Jackson selects the best songs in each solo career and organizes them into fantasy albums they might have formed had the legendary group stayed together.
About the Author
Andrew Grant Jackson is the author of the upcoming 1965: THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY YEAR IN MUSIC, WHERE'S RINGO? , and STILL THE GREATEST: THE ESSENTIAL SONGS OF THE BEATLES' SOLO CAREERS.
The updated paperback of STILL THE GREATEST features a new 12-page Afterword in which Beatle experts discuss more great solo tracks that were not included in the first edition.
Jackson's blogs: www.1965book.com, www.solobeatles.com, www.facebook.com/1965book, www.twitter.com/1965book, www.facebook.com/solobeatlebook
Jackson has written for Rolling Stone, Yahoo!, Slate's "Blogging the Beatles," Baseline Studio System, music magazines Burn Lounge, Mean Street, and Dispatch, and copyedited the Hollywood monthly magazine Ingenue. He directed and cowrote the feature film The Discontents starring Perry King and Amy Madigan and served as actor Jeff Bridges's development associate at AsIs Productions. He lives in Los Angeles.
STILL THE GREATEST has been recommended by USA TODAY, excerpted in ROLLING STONE.COM, and nominated for the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Best Research in Recorded Rock Music Award. Check out the links here:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/story/2012-09-06/take-5-weekend-staff-picks/57631988/1
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-paul-mccartney-goes-from-eleanor-rigby-to-silly-love-songs-and-back-again-20120816
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-john-lennons-last-rebirth-on-the-stormy-seas-in-borrowed-time-20120815
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-george-harrison-realizes-its-time-to-move-on-from-the-beatles-20120817
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-ringo-starr-realizes-a-dream-with-his-1970-country-album-20120818
Interview with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-personal-triumphs-tragedies-helped-propel-beatles-solo-career
Interview with Culture Magazine:
http://ireadculture.com/2012/10/news/buzz/all-you-need-is-bud/
