Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration Audiobook (Free)

The Beatles and Duke Ellington’s Orchestra stand as the two greatest types of collaboration in music history. Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a family portrait of the creative process at the job, demonstrating which the cooperative method at the foundation of these two artist-groups was the principal reason behind their unequaled musical success.

While clarifying the historical record of who wrote what, with whom, and how, Brothers brings days gone by to life with photos, anecdotes, and a lot more than thirty years of musical knowledge that reverberates through every web page, and evaluation of tracks from Lennon and McCartney’s ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ to Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Chelsea Bridge.’ Help! explains in rich detail the music and mastery of two social leaders whose reputation hasn’t dimmed, and the procedure of cooperation that allowed them to accomplish an artistic eyesight greater than the sum of their parts.