Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
1994 book by Ian MacDonald
Summary
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties is a book by British music critic and author Ian MacDonald, discussing the music of the Beatles and the band's relationship to the social and cultural changes of the 1960s. The first edition was published in 1994, with revised editions appearing in 1997 and 2005, the latter following MacDonald's death in 2003.
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/* Background */ This page misstated the order of events in MacDonald's career. It erroneously claimed that MacDonald was motivated to write about The Beatles after his Mojo Magazine article on Nick Drake ("Exiled from Heaven") when in fact the Drake piece was published in 2000 and Revolution in the Head was originally published in 1994. In fact, the success of Revolution in the Head inspired MacDonald to return to music writing in the late '90s, leading to the Drake piece.
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