What Goes On

Contents

• Preface
• Contents of Beatle videos
• Prologue: Who Were the Beatles?
• Introduction - Revolt Into Sound: Race, Class, Generation Divide and Gender Dominate Pre-Beatles Rock 'n' Roll
• John Lennon Discovers Rock 'n' Roll
• Elvis Presley and Other First-generation Rockers
• The Beatles on the BBC
• From Performance to Production and Poetic Concept
• Chapter 1 - The Quarry Men (1940-1960)
• A Pre-history
• The Quarry Men
• Becoming the Beatles: In Spite of All the Danger
• Early Paying Gigs
• Chapter 2 - The Pete Best Era (1961-1962)
• 1961-62 Original Releases
• The Cavern, My Bonnie and Brian Epstein
• Recording for EMI: George Martin
• Please Please Me
• Chapter 3 - Runaway Train: British Beatlemania (1963)
• 1963 British Releases
• The Rise to National Prominence: Please Please Me
• I Saw Her Standing There
• There's A Place
• Growth as Musicians
• She Loves You
• With the Beatles and I Want to Hold Your Hand
• All I've Got to Do
• Not a Second Time
• I Want to Hold Your Hand
• Beatlemania Officially Recognized
• Chapter 4 - Instant Combustion: World Embrace (1964)
• Storming the States
• 1964 Original Releases
• A Hard Day's Night
• I Should Have Known Better
• If I Fell
• Things We Said Today
• I'll Be Back
• I Call Your Name
• World Tour and Further Recording: Beatles for Sale
• Chapter 5 - Repeat with a Twist (1965)
• 1965 Original Releases
• The Beatles and the Changing Global Culture of 1965
• Ticket to Ride
• Help!
• The Night Before, Another Girl
• Yesterday
• The Beatles as Live Performers
• We Can Work It Out
• Day Tripper
• Rubber Soul
• You Won't See Me
• Michelle
• Chapter 6 - From the Stage to the Studio (1966)
• The Final Tours
• Revolver
• Here, There and Everywhere
• And Your Bird Can Sing
• Doctor Robert
• Paperback Writer
• Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
• Chapter 7 - Celebrity Psychedelia (1967)
• 1967 British Releases
• The Summer of Love
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• A Day in the Life
• Magical Mystery Tour
• The Fool on the Hill
• I Am the Walrus
• Chapter 8 - Listening Through a Glass Onion (1968)
• 1968 British Releases
• The Summer of Love, Inverted
• Early-1968 Recording Projects and Rishikesh
• Apple and Solo Excursions
• The White Album
• Dear Prudence
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps
• Martha My Dear
• I'm So Tired
• Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
• Sexy Sadie
• Revolution 9
• Chapter 9 - They May Be Parted (1969-1970)
• 1969-1970 British Releases
• The Get Back Project
• Two of Us
• Dig a Pony
• I've Got a Feeling
• One After 909
• Don't Let Me Down
• The Spring of 1969
• The Ballad of John and Yoko
• Abbey Road
• Oh! Darling
• The Ex-Beatles
• The Beatles' Legacy
• Appendix 1: Recordings That Influenced the Beatles
• Appendix 2: 1960s Timeline
• Appendix 3: Guide to Multimedia Materials
• Selected Bibliography
• Index of Song Titles, Artists' and Others' Names, Musical Terms and Concepts