Talk:Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

Not a Stub!
How can this long article be labeled as a stub??! I think that it has plenty of information and probably has everything that it can have. It is insulting to whoever wrote all that to call it a stub. Grango242 22:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It was, once, but more material has been added. I have therefore removed the tag on this page.

The essay
The piece on the introductory essay is good, although I would dispute certain statements. But the point I would make here is that this section entirely dominates the page, which mis-represents the role of the essay in the book. The bulk of MacDonald's wok is the analysis of the beatles' songs, and the intro merely prefaces it. I would be against reducing the text since it is valuable, but more needs to be said of the book's main themes and content. 81.96.164.105 (talk) 22:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

More needed
As the contributor of the piece on the introductory essay, I am glad that this piece has not been reduced, especially since it is a crucial part of the book that places the appeal of the book way beyond Beatles fanatics. I would like to see more on the body of the book, but that is up to other contributors, and do not believe my piece ought to be penalized simply because of a shortage of contributions. The mini-essays on each Beatles track that compose the main part of the book contain much 'hardcore' musicological analysis that discusses keys, chords etc. This is fascinating in general, but lies way beyond my own understanding or competence in terms of comment or description. I would be glad to see more contributions that could do justice to making an assessment or description of this part of the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.104.55.244 (talk) 16:30, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Mojo Nick Drake retrospective in '99 " led to writing a work about the Beatles" in 94?
from article - "He wrote a lengthy retrospective on Nick Drake, whom he personally knew when living in Cambridge in the early 1970s, and this led to writing a work about the Beatles.[1]"

linked obit doesn't claim that - mentions his piece on Nick Drake at the end of the article re. being part of his just published anthology The People's Music and pos thematic links to Ian's suicide), instead says earlier in the article re Revolution In The Head "It came out of the blue, in the sense that MacDonald had been virtually silent on the subject of popular music for several years before its publication." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/sep/08/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Also, his Nick Drake retrospective wasn't published til late '99/beginning of 2000 - according to here (& elsewhere) Revolution In The Head had already had two editions by then - '94 & '97). 86.187.167.223 (talk) 23:17, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

There was a cut down version of the book focusing on singles that came out after his death
The Beatles At No. 1 - Ian McDonald (published 20 Nov 2003 according to amazon UK) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beatles-At-No-1/dp/1844134296

86.187.167.223 (talk) 23:24, 28 August 2017 (UTC)