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List Price: $28.00 | | Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Salesrank: 20047
Released: June 16, 2009 |
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| Media: Paperback |
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Editorial Review:
From Revolver to Let It Be, That Magic Feeling: The Beatles Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966—1970, continues the chronicle of the group’s spectacular career from its creative zenith to its irrevocable split
As the Beatles moved into the mid and late 1960s, their collective and individual musical talent and innovations evolved at an unparalleled pace. Like its companion volume, Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957—1965, this unique work thoroughly chronicles all known and available Beatles recordings during this period of incredible creative growth.
Have you ever watched a Beatles film clip and wondered:
• Where was that filmed?
• Is any more of that footage available?
Have you ever heard a Beatles interview and asked:
• When was that taped?
• Where’s the best place to find the complete recording?
That Magic Feeling answers these and thousands of similar questions. With more than 500 entries, it includes recording sessions, concerts, newsreel footage, press clips, TV and film performances, home movies, radio interviews, documentaries, studio outtakes, home demos, and alternative mixes–all of which are given complete coverage for the first time.
Author John C. Winn has spent two decades poring over, scrutinizing, organizing, and analyzing hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings and compiling them into a digestible chronological framework, creating the ultimate reference guide to the Beatles’ legendary musical and cultural evolution.
That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966-1970 Reviews:
...Takes You Away! 
2009-11-14 - That Magic Feeling is a nice complement to the Lewisohn book. If fills in on a few of the more obscure moments of the Beatles recording legacy, inclusive of those outside the Beatles that they actually recorded with. It also lists all of the Beatle TV/Film appearances. A very nice addition to your Beatle library. Recommended.
A key reference for any serious Beatles collection 
2009-10-19 - Any library seeking an in-depth exploration of the Beatles legacy will welcome the second volume of "That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume 2", covering 1966-1970. Details on studio session include producers, locations, and in-depth descriptions of studio events and direction and conclude with a release history of everything from newsreel footage to albums. Comments on mixes, demos, changes and more offer very specific moment-by-moment guides key to any who want more than a casual discography, making this a key reference for any serious Beatles collection.
Expanding Lewisohn and Fixing The Holes
2009-08-27 - Winn has created an essential reference for the Beatles completist and for the 1960s historian alike. To focus on the latter, so many significant events of the time from 1966 to early 1970 included a Beatle, whether in song, in comment, or in reference. Where a Beatles speaks, sings, or appears, it is noted here. This work places anchors within the chronology.
For the Beatles completist, this book expands Lewisohn's remarkable foundation of work, bringing up to date the day-by-day events as they were documented. Winn also corrects some of the minor errors from Lewisohn's recording time line, fixing the location of Beatles in or out of London, and the studio, through other, documented data, principally brief interviews. Nothing will displace Lewisohn from the apex of Beatles research. Winn serves here to amplify it with further data, some unknown until the last few years.
It is not meant as an introductory history of the Beatles and their recording and touring era. Davies' biography is the better place to begin such a study, but it is the facts of the times, from the Revolver sessions to the end of the band. For example, the development of Strawberry Fields Forever, from a simple song to a lasting work of depth made from two complete mixes in two different keys, is a fairly brief note in Davies. Winn takes it start to finish, and most importantly, lists where to find the various takes and mixes. This is true whether it is included in the official EMI canon, or from another source entirely.
Winn has removed the need for Belmo in the Beatles library, as a reference for the group's work and where to find it all. This is the definitive source for all Beatles recordings and where to find them, boots on or off.
