Tim Riley’s Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary, another outstanding piece of scholarship, offers invaluable insights that, although now well understood, were fresh when the book first appeared. Published in the “20th-Century Composers” series alongside works on Béla Bartók, Richard Strauss, and other musical luminaries, Kozinn’s book treats the Beatles with the respect they deserve. Allan Kozinn’s The Beatles is also well done. Though less experienced readers may find it slow going, Mellers’s book is required reading for those with a serious interest in the Beatles. Among these is Wilfrid Mellers’s excellent Twilight of the Gods: The Beatles in Retrospect. Some of the best work on the Beatles is that written about their music and lyrics. Thanks to the group’s transformation of the genre, musicologists began to take pop music seriously for the first time. As early as 1963, music critics detected something special in the Beatles’ music.
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