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Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Help The Beatles Duke Ellington and the Magic of Collaboration - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Thomas Brothers, Keith Sellon-Wright (Narrator) The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the world’s most celebrated musical acts. — The Beatles and Duke Ellington’s Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Through his highly original examination of these two musical legends, Duke University musicologi... more »st Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the cooperative method at the foundation of these two artist- groups was the primary reason for their unmatched musical success.
While clarifying the historical record of who wrote what, with whom, and how, Brothers brings the past to life with a breadth of musical knowledge that reverberates through every page, and analyses of songs from Lennon and McCartney’s Strawberry Fields Forever to Billy Strayhorn’s Chelsea Bridge. Help! describes in rich detail the music and mastery of two cultural leaders whose popularity has never dimmed.
Read by Keith Sellon-Wright. 10 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.)« less