Meet the Beatles / Stark, Steven D

Examines the personal and professional lives of John Lennon, Paul McCarney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, and describes how the Beatles got their start and their impact on the youth culture of the 1960s and 1970s.

The band that changed popular culture forever has become so shrouded in cultural mythology that it is difficult today to really understand how or why. Stark puts their impact into perspective by revealing both the personal details and the larger events, examining the ways in which the Beatles' own lives were inextricably tied to the cultural, youth, and gender revolutions they helped create and lead during the 1960s.