Doug Sulpy publishes the Beatles magazine The 910; he has written for Goldmine and Musician
Ray Schweighardt published the Beatles newsletter How Do You Do It? He writes for The 910 and other venues.
Autoritative, illuminating, and thoroughly engrossing, Get Back
is already winning praise as a unique window into the interaction - and diissolution - of
the world's greatest rock and roll band. Beatiefan magazine hailed it, along with the
books of Mark Lewisohn, as "the most valuable Beatles volume put out in recent
years."
Here, for the first time, Beatles experts Sulpy and Schweighardt trace the group's
breakdown through the fascinating prism of the Get Back recording sessions. January 2,
1969: The Beatles begin a month of intensive sessions, designed to capture the musicians
'as nature
intended." Playing raw, live, with no studio tricks or gimmicks, the Beatles were
consciously rejecting the high-gloss production style of their recent albums in favor of a
return to their earlier stripped-down rock and roll sound. But Beatles Unplugged soon
became Beatles Undone, and the project turned into the thirty-day saga of a group in
freefall. Bickering and sniping, trudging through sloppy versions of old hits, the Fab
Four were coming apart.
The first book to offer a definitive, minute-by-minute chronicle of the vents of that much-discussed month, Get Back is an indeispensavle addition to every serious Beatle fan's library. Yes it is much more than a simple collection of information: Doug Sulpy and Roy Schweigharrdt have given us a singularly candid look at these four collaborators in their greatest moment of crisis. There has never been a book on any musical group more intimate, thorough, or revealing.
