I finished my foray into reading four prime Beatles sources dealing with the canon on a song-by-song basis... it was fun... Pollack and Everett deal more with music theory, while Riley and MacDonald are more literarily critical (yes, that's not a word)... I found myself agreeing more with Riley, whose spirit is overall more generous than MacDonald's... Everett does the best job of putting the Beatles' efforts into contemporary musical context... Overall, I find that my favorite Beatles songs are not those of any of these authors...
*O'Brien, Edna. Night (started)
*Simon, Joe, and Jack Kirby. The Best of Simon and Kirby (reread/started/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Under the Shadow (reread/started/finished)
*Everett, Walter. The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (reread/finished)
*MacDonald, Ian. Revolution in the Head, 3rd ed. (reread/finished)
*Pollack, Allan W. Notes on … Series (reread/finished)
*Riley, Tim. Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (reread/finished)
*Herriman, George. Krazy and Ignatz: Love Letters in Ancient Brick (1927-28) (in progress)
*Lambert, Eddie. Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (reread/selections)
*Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (in progress)
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