Revolution in the Head: the Beatles records and the Sixties (3rd edition 2008)

Ian MacDonald

As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to ...

The Complete Poems

Walt Whitman

From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself," all of Whitman's poetry in one volume   In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it sp...