Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including everything in between. Eight arms to hold you near my heart eight arms to hold you near my heart say that well never drift apart eight arms to hold you near my heart your dreams. We struggled to record it and struggled to make it. Sadly, eight arms to hold you, both overreaching and superficial, is a bit of a mess, an earlier book, photographs from the set of help, setting out to do less, is far superior. The followup to the successful hard days night, with rare. The title track of the beatles second feature film and fifth uk album was recorded on this day, in an evening session taking place from 711. Then treat yourself to eight arms to hold you, a collection of rare and. It features both rare and unseen photos and materials from the movie help.
Eight arms to hold you the solo beatles compendium. Neverbeforeseen photos of the beatles from eight arms to. The book is curated by world renowned beatles author, simon wells. Others include doug sulpys regularly updated complete beatles audio guide, which sorts out the tangled bootleg market, and chip madinger and mark easters eight arms to hold you. He was also the coauthor and book designer of the highly acclaimed. Unboxing a first edition copy of the beatles book eight arms to hold you. Now comes an idea for a crowdsourced beatle book called eight arms to hold you the forgotten archives. Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including. Eight arms to hold you was a song recorded for the soundtrack to the film the goonies. Mark easter and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. History doesnt repeat itself in eight arms to hold you. That was the films second working title, the first one being, simply, beatles 2. I love the lewisohn books and the bruce spizer books, but this is the one i always find myself. Poole lamented the early end of the beatles and wondered with many others, what if.
Every aspect of he their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including. Neverbeforeseen photos of the beatles from eight arms to hold. By the time the beatles lift off the ground in the. This book is a wealth of information, this is my goto book when i want data on beatle solo releases. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Eight arms to hold you the beatles solo compendium. Great book of hi quality photos from 1965 on the set and off. Total film, and was a contributor to the beatles book, the groups official magazine. As for the solo beatles, theres only one book that merits comparison to those two. The beatles start filming eight arms to hold you feb. Published in 2000, the book immediately became a bible for fans and collectors of john, paul, george, and ringos solo work and activities. The book focuses on the fab fours appearance in the movie help. Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos. Eight arms to hold you was a oneofakind detailed examination of what the four exbeatles did musically, when and with whom.
Eight arms to hold you revisited something about the beatles. I think we wrote this when we were trying to write the title song for help. Then treat yourself to eight arms to hold you, a collection of rare and unseen photographs of the english rock band that dramatically altered the music landscape 50 years ago. The book went out of print, but the good news is, its back in pdf form and updated with another 20,000 words, further detailing the ground covered though it. The solo beatles compendium i know for a fact a bunch of us on here have this book, so lets discuss. The solo beatles compendium is the ultimate look at the careers of john lennon, paul mccartney, george harrison and ringo starr beyond the beatles. The solo beatles compendium is the ultimate look at the careers of. Eight arms to hold you the forgotten archives is an upcoming lp size book about the filming of help. One of the main inspirations behind going into selfpublishing was a beatles book entitled eight arms to hold you by chip madinger and mark.
Unfollow eight arms to hold you to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. It was utilized in a scene in the film where the character data puts a loud tape recorder blaring the song into the mouth of an octopus to fend it off. The beatles eight arms to hold you 1991, cd discogs. One of the main inspirations behind going into selfpublishing was a beatles book entitled eight arms to hold you by chip madinger and mark easter by the way, mark is a passionate abba fan who supported the crowdfunding for abba the complete recording sessions. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Many others have tried, but there is no resource as accurate and far reaching as this book. Every aspect of he their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including everything in between. It has been totally supplanted by eight arms to hold you. For the purposes of eight arms to hold you, the book we issue in october of that.
Eight arms to hold you is the definitive guide to help. Back in 2000, chip madinger and mark easter produced an exhaustive study of every extant recording of the solo beatles, up to that very year. The song was recorded by a studio group called goon squad that was put together by producer arthur baker. Unboxing eight arms to hold you the beatles first edition.
The beatles eight arms to hold you releases discogs. While revisiting eight arms to hold you for the first time in nearly 20 years after writing and publication, we found a book that, while flawed and almost 20 years out of date, still holds up extremely well as it examines the four solo beatles from 1966 through 2000, the most artistically and commercially significant periods of their careers. Eight arms to hold you a book celebrating the beatles. The beatles spent the last day of march 1965 at twickenham film studios working on scenes for help. It was the last album to feature original band members nina gordon, louise post, steve lack, and jim shapiro until the 2015 reunion album ghost notes the title of the album is a reference to the working title for the beatles film. In addition to his writing credits, simon has researched projects for the likes of the bbc, channel four, c5, discovery channel and virgin media, as well as broadcasting live on lbc, itn and the bbc on film. Its called eight arms to hold you because that was the working title of the 1965 beatle film now better known as help 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the movies release. I really dont have very much to say about this book.