Kenneth L. Campbell is Professor of History at Monmouth University, USA. He is the author of A History of the British Isles: Prehistory to the Present (2017), Ireland’s History: From Prehistory to the Present (2013) and Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach, Volumes I & II (2012). He has published and presented work on the Beatles, and has taught a first-year seminar on the Beatles for ten years.

• List of Illustrations1. Introduction: The Beatles, the Sixties, and Us2. Post-War Britain, American Rock and Roll, and the Birth of the Beatles3. Post-War Germany, the Beatles, and the Birth of the Sixties4. Profumo, the Pill, and Please, Please Me: The Rise of the Beatles5. 1964: Beatlemania in Historical Context6. 1965: Help! The Beatles and the Culture of the Mid-1960s7. 1966: The Beatles on a Global Stage8. 1967: All You Need is Love - War, Peace, the Beatles, and the Summer of Love9. 1968: Revolution, Rock Music, and the Beatles - The White Album in Historical Context10. 1969: Woodstock, the Beatles, and the End of the Sixties11. Let It Be: Contemporary Responses to the Beatles’ Last Albums and the Breakup of the Beatles12. Conclusion: Post-Sixties Politics and the Absence of the BeatlesBibliographyIndex

Author Ken Campbell has given an intriguingly personal, yet historical account ... The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution and Social Change (Bloomsbury, 2021) captures what few volumes are able to do: give those details that are already familiar to the devoted and yet place these memories inside a contextual, readable and relatable narrative, not usual for this style of book ... a highly important historical treatise, gathering steam from Kennedy to Kennedy, from Profumo to Paris.