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  • Chapter 4 - Brian Epstein, Beatlemania’s Architect

  • from Part I - Beatle People and Beatle Places
  • Edited by Kenneth Womack, Monmouth University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    The Beatles in Context
    Published online:
    10 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 January 2020, pp 37-43

  • Summary

    Born in Liverpool to Harry and Malka “Queenie” Epstein on September 19, 1934, Brian Samuel Epstein had been educated at a succession of schools before settling upon Wrekin College in Shropshire. In 1950, Epstein entered the business world as a furniture salesman in his father Harry’s prosperous department store on Walton Road. His time in the department store was cut short after he was conscripted into the National Service, for which he only served one year of his expected two-year term. At one point, he was charged with impersonating an officer after being saluted, incorrectly, by a sentry. As a result, he was confined to barracks and later discharged on “medical grounds.”

  • Chapter 17 - Producing Sound Pictures with Sir George Martin

  • from Part IV - The Beatles’ Sound
  • Edited by Kenneth Womack, Monmouth University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    The Beatles in Context
    Published online:
    10 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 January 2020, pp 180-186

  • Summary

    The most widely acclaimed record producer of his generation, George Martin enjoyed unparalleled success during a fifty-year musical career in which he oversaw the production of some thity No. 1 hits and more than 700 recordings. For many rock historians, he truly deserves the title of being the “Fifth Beatle,” despite Murray “The K” Kaufman’s well-known comments to the contrary. Martin not only transformed the Beatles into popular music’s most influential recording artists, but also handled key duties involving the musical arrangement and orchestration of their mid- to late period recordings, including a spate of landmark albums – Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (The White Album, 1968), and Abbey Road (1969). It is difficult to imagine a more prestigious output.

The Beatles in Context
  • Edited by Kenneth Womack
  • Published online:
    10 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 January 2020
  • Since their first performances in 1960, The Beatles' cultural influence grew in unparalleled ways. From Liverpool to Beatlemania, and from dance halls to Abbey Road Studios and the digital age, the band's impact exploded during their heyday, and has endured in the decades following their disbandment. Beatles fashion and celebrity culture, politics, psychedelia and the Summer of Love, all highlight different aspects of the band's complex relationship with the world around them. With a wide range of short, snapshot chapters, The Beatles in Context brings together key themes in which to better explore The Beatles' lives and work and understand their cultural legacy, focusing on the people and places central to The Beatles' careers, the visual media that contributed to their enduring success, and the culture and politics of their time.

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