Revolution: The Making of The Beatles' White Album (The Vinyl Frontier)

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Summary: the white album: rediscovered.
Review: To criticise this book for not containing any new scandal or gossip (as some have done) is to miss the point as to what the book, or for that matter the work in question it references, was designed for.
This book was written for Beatles fans and in particular those who have more than a soft spot for the 1968 opus 'The Beatles'.
If that sounds like stating the obvious, and guess what? It does,
then let,s be more scientific with the mundane: precious few people other than Beatles fans, particularly those that are more than partial to the 'White Album' funny enough, are going to read this book let alone buy it. Therefore as a part musicological/part nostalgic read,it serves it's underlying purpose of reminding us (that's you Beatles fans) that music did, and still does, mean something to our lives other than a corporate sponsored soundtrack to our increasingly, consumerised existence (and in these days of Robbie Williams, Geri Halliwell and an assortment of purely manufactured pop idols, we sometimes need that reassurance).
Don't read too much into this book, it mostly reiterates what you already know. Just let it ease you back into a wonderful trip that is the 'White Album' and revitalise your sense of aesthetics. After all, there is a small chapter in the book dedicated to someone who over analysed the album's contents, if you believe the theory, and he eventually couldn't tell the difference between a children's fairground ride and psychotic homocide.
Read, enjoy, then go back and listen again. Jazz cigarette optional.