In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles Revised Edition Kenneth
Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle
group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their
early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By
mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc
from their first primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career. In
this revised edition Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the
original publication of Long and Winding Roads along with hundreds of the group's outtakes
released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles'
musical debt to Rhythm and Blues as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our
understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.
