Hi!

I thought you might like to hear about this course from the online University of Rochester; The Beatles Music. You can take it for free and it covers the whole history of The Beatles. It’s only 6 weeks, a few hours a week and it will allow you to get your Beatles geek on!

https://www.coursera.org/course/beatles

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And to think... when I went to university, we had to take Organic Chemistry, Physics, Calculus...

The Beatles were part of "extra curricular activities"...which typically got in the way of that other stuff...

Likely worth what you pay for it.

The Berklee free on-line courses are worth several hundred dollars each, in my opinion. And they cost nothing.

I will check this one out after February.

Meanwhile, one of the folks that participates in the February Album Writing Month challenge has a blog with 'Tickets to Write', with interesting observations about chord structure/patterns common in Beatles songs. I've used them more than once to get out of typical chord pattern ruts.

http://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/p/tickets-to-write.html

-Scott

Beatles history and music is cool stuff.

I love to hear the stories behind the songs.

I recommend the BBC documentary, "Produced by George Martin" for his pre-Beatles and post-Beatles work and of course plenty in there about the Beatles as well.

Hi all.
I also recommend 'Revolution in the Head' by far the best book on the Beatles that I have read,it mixes social history with musical analysis and gives an astonishing depth of information on the Beatles and 60's music in general.
The author is the late Ian Macdonald and I think there is a 2008 update available so I bet Amazon have got it there.
Cya.