In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth
Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as
a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs
and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the
legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself.
By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces
the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through
Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.
In
order to communicate the nature and power of the band's remarkable
achievement, Womack examines the Beatles' body of work as an evolving
art object. He investigates the origins and creation of the group's
compositions, as well as the songwriting and recording practices that
brought them to fruition. Womack's analysis of the Beatles' albums
transports readers on a journey through the Beatles' heyday as recording
artists between 1962 and 1969, when the band enjoyed a staggering
musical and lyrical leap that took them from their first album Please Please Me, which they recorded in the space of a single day, to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album, and Abbey Road-albums
that collectively required literally thousands of hours to produce. In
addition to considering the band's increasing self-consciousness about
the overall production, design, and presentation of their art, Womack
explores the Beatles' albums as a collection of musical and lyrical
impressions that finds them working towards a sense of aesthetic unity.
In Long and Winding Roads, Womack reveals the ways in which the Beatles gave life to a musical synthesis that would change the world.
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