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Summary: Illustrated Beatles Lyrics? Great!
Review: "The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics" is a must-have for Beatles fans everywhere. This book features the lyrics from most Beatles songs, each song paired with anadventurous illustration capturing the mood and theme/s of that particular song. Many of the illustrations are brilliant works of art, especially those for "Eleanor Rigby", "I Want You", "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Dear Prudence" and are great to look at when listening to the songs. I found the illustration for "She's Leaving Home" - a comic strip of the story told in the song to be ecceptionally neat. Some of the pictures are interesting to say the least: "Cry Baby Cry", "Blackbird" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", whereas others are just darned weird, such as "Dr. Robert", "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Within You Without You" - but hey, even some of the weird illustrations are fun to look at. Also featured throughout the book is a selection of fan art - all of it pretty good. In conclusion, if you are a die-hard Beatles fan, you shouldn't be without this book. Sure, it's not for everyone (some of the art may be a little too much for some people), but if you love the Beatles and if you love poetry, by all means grab a copy.
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Summary: The Beatles Illustr.Lyr.:Include this book songs after1968y?
Review: I am an owner of this book approximately 29 years. It is a Czech version of this publications from 1969, by czechoslovak"Panton" editorship./It was difficult/hard/era of our history after Soviet invasion in 1968./I'am living now in Slovakia and this book/from 1969/ is rarity in our country.In our difficult era it was one of my favourite books that gave me enjoyment and sanguineness.It was a symbol of love a peace for me and our friends.I was very surprised by reedition of this beautiful book after many years in USA/?/.But I don't know, if it is original version until "White Double" album era, or if it is "extended" version including the beatle-songs /and pictures/ from "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" albums.Send me, please, some informations about it. Thank You . dr.Havelka.
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Summary: I own the orignal, published in 69
Review: I have the oringnal book with the (it is a hard back)oringal paper cover the new one is not the same nor is it close, the paper cover over the hard back is in excellent shape, and the cover is very different, the darwings, the feel all is different, the one I have is a very limited print and is VERY hard to find my e-mail adress is kissmonkey@direct.ca 604-899-0828 so if you want the real thing let me know,,,,, see ya
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Summary: I own the orignal, published in 69
Review: I have the oringnal book with the (it is a hard back)oringal paper cover the new one is not the same nor is it close, the paper cover over the hard back is in excellent shape, and the cover is very different, the darwings, the feel all is different, the one I have is a very limited print and is VERY hard to find my e-mail adress is kissmonkey@direct.ca 604-899-0828 so if you want the real thing let me know,,,,, see ya
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Summary: Groovy Book
Review: I love this book - I don't have the original copy but I'm not such a purist that it really matters.
The art is fantastic and it is great to flick through or read at length. Full of ideas for any budding artists it has also made me well into Alan Aldridge whose designs are mind-boggling.
Suggest also checking out Phantasia by Alan Aldridge - it is out of print but can be found in the usual places...
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Summary: Groovy Book
Review: I love this book - I don't have the original copy but I'm not such a purist that it really matters.
The art is fantastic and it is great to flick through or read at length. Full of ideas for any budding artists it has also made me well into Alan Aldridge whose designs are mind-boggling.
Suggest also checking out Phantasia by Alan Aldridge - it is out of print but can be found in the usual places...
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Summary: Remember, it was first published in 1969.
Review: I remember getting these books in 1969 and being completely blown away by the concept of illustrating lyrics. This is MTV before video skewed our artistic vision. The Beatles really did change the world.
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Summary: Let It Be........and don't buy
Review: I've actually owned this book for years and was suprised to see it is still available. This is one of my favorites in my entire Beatles collection. It is filled with psychadelic paintings and artwork from well known artists such as Peter Max as well as quick Lennon sketches. It displays some nudity and is not for every Beatles fan, but captures the spirit of the era beautifully. It's colorful, fun, and filled with page after page of Beatles lyrics. How can you go wrong???
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Summary: An Explosion Of Art And Poetry
Review: I've actually owned this book for years and was suprised to see it is still available. This is one of my favorites in my entire Beatles collection. It is filled with psychadelic paintings and artwork from well known artists such as Peter Max as well as quick Lennon sketches. It displays some nudity and is not for every Beatles fan, but captures the spirit of the era beautifully. It's colorful, fun, and filled with page after page of Beatles lyrics. How can you go wrong???
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Summary: Let It Be........and don't buy
Review: Illistrated lyrics my a$*....Personally, I was a bit dissapointed with this book. Let me get one thing straight, I do love art, paintings, drawings etc, but this book is full of the most obscure pictures of random things that are totally irrelevent to the song, let alone depicting the lyrics.
Don't get me wrong, I am absolutly mad about the Beatles and there music, the lyrics and songs, and of course their handsomely good looks (hehe) , but this book just made it seem like someone took a whole bunch of meaningless doodles by un-notorious 'artists'and stuck them beside imagary, story telling lyrics. If you want to learn background about the beatles' songs, this book will take you nowhere . However, if you ARE looking for some unattractive illistrations and incorrect lyrics to beatles songs, you've found your match. So before you buy, think about it....LET IT BE for your own sake, and your wallet's
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