Behind The Songs: Beatles: Stories 40 Classic Songs

How did four young musicians from Liverpool go from the infectious simplicity of "Love Me Do" to the breathtaking studio achievement of Abbey Road in just seven years? BEHIND THE SONGS: THE BEATLES tells that remarkable story through the records themselves. >Discover what really happened behind "Please Please Me," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "A Hard Day's Night," "Yesterday," "Norwegian Wood," "Eleanor Rigby," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "A Day in the Life," "Hey Jude," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Come Together," "Let It Be" and many more. Who wrote what? Who played what? What happened in the studio? Follow Lennon and McCartney as their songwriting partnership evolves from writing together face-to-face to creating increasingly individual masterpieces. Watch George Harrison emerge as a formidable songwriter. Hear Ringo's distinctive contribution to the records. And step inside the control room with George Martin and the Abbey Road engineers as tape loops, backwards recordings, orchestras, unusual instruments, double tracking, distortion and sheer ingenuity turn increasingly ambitious ideas into finished records. The story unfolds chronologically, so you can hear the transformation happening almost in real time: the explosive singles of Beatlemania, the growing sophistication of Rubber Soul and Revolver, the studio revolution of Sgt. Pepper, the sprawling experimentation of the White Album, the troubled Let It Be sessions, and the magnificent final achievement of Abbey Road. Along the way are the details Beatles fans love: recording dates, studios, instruments, personnel, overdubs, alternate approaches, songwriting origins, production breakthroughs, unexpected accidents and the stories hidden inside recordings millions of us thought we already knew. Seven extraordinary years. Four musicians. A succession of records unlike anything that had come before.