Kenneth Womack Long & Winding Roads, Revised Edition: The Evolving Artistry of Kenneth Womack Multicolor

In Long and Winding Roads The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, RevisedEdition, Kenneth Womack brings the bands story vividly to lifefrom 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 groups 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 this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatlesrelated scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the groups outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the bands timeless story. | Kenneth Womac