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Eccentric and easily recognizable, Ringo Starr is often the least-credited of the four Beatles. Now he gets his due as an entire book devotes time to picking him out. Twenty Beatle-themed illustrations by artist David Ryan Robinson show the Beatles and their comrades in iconic scenes from Beatle history.Ringo pops up in amazing places — in scenes from albums, films, and creative collaborations. There are even iconic Beatles memorabilia items hidden on each page to extend the hours of search-and-find fun. Complete with original photographs and fact-filled overviews describing each image, this Beatle keepsake never lets you down.
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/
