The Beatles

This book was required for a humanities class at my university. It provides great depth into the lives of the Beatles through its images and verbage.

This is an intriguing, stimulating, accessible, and lively text that follows the path of the Beatles in America and their evolving image, from lovable Liverpudlian, working class "moptops" to their ascendancy to the forefront of the youth countercultural movement. In the words of Frontani, this is a "thorough time capsule" that explores how the Beatles' image was carefully promoted by their manager Brian Epstein, and as the turbulent events of the `60s unfolded, how that initial image gave way to one more authentic, more in tune with the hopes, aspirations, and frustrations of the time, and one more consonant with the group members' self-perceptions and self-understandings.