The book also contains the essay "Fabled Foursome, Disappearing Decade", MacDonald's analysis of the Beatles' relationship to the social and cultural changes of the 1960s. MacDonald provides musicological and sociological commentary on each song, ranging in length from a single sentence for " Wild Honey Pie" to several pages for tracks such as " I Want to Hold Your Hand", " Tomorrow Never Knows" and " Revolution 1". Each entry includes a list of the musicians and instruments present on the track, the song's producers and engineers, and the dates of its recording sessions and its first UK and US releases. The book's main section comprises entries on every song recorded by the group, in order of first recording date, rather than date of release. The success of Revolution in the Head would inspire MacDonald to return to popular music writing for the music magazine Mojo in the late '90s, with many of these reviews and essays eventually collected in The People's Music (2003). He had moved away from popular music writing by the early 1990s with The New Shostakovich, his re-evaluation of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich against earlier KGB written accounts. MacDonald first began working as a journalist with the New Musical Express in the 1970s.
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