Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition

Kenneth Womack is one of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon, as well as a contributor to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of The Beatles Encyclopedia (2014), Maximum Volume (2017), Sound Pictures (2018), Solid State (2019), and John Lennon 1980 (2020). In October 2020, Rolling Stone magazine published a feature story outlining Womack’s groundbreaking research associated with Lennon’s life and work.

• Prologue: The End1. The Beginning2. A Cellarful of Noise 3. And the Band Begins to Play4. Rock and Roll Music5. The Biggest Showbiz Town Ever6. War-Weary 7. Yesterday and Today8. Plastic Soul9. The End of the Road10. The Act You’ve Known for All These Years11. Roll Up for the Mystery Tour12. Whiter Shades of Pale13. Getting Back14. The Dream Is OverEpilogue: Long Live the DreamAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotesIndex

Combining masterful storytelling and intellectual rigor, Kenneth Womack takes readers on a spellbinding tour of Beatles history. Journeying through the band’s music-making album by album, this revised edition of Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles captures all the dynamism, poignancy, and magic behind the now-iconic discography. An engaging and invaluable text, Womack demonstrates once more why he is a leading voice in Beatles scholarship.