On Thursday, September 26, 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, the Beatles' final masterpiece, released on September 26, 1969, Libreria Raffaello – Via Kerbaker 35, Naples – presents the national premiere of Something. The Beatles' 1969 and a Legendary Song, the new book by Donato Zoppo, published by GM Press and dedicated to the Beatles' masterpiece and George Harrison's famous song. The meeting will be moderated by Michelangelo Iossa, who also wrote the preface, and will be attended by publisher Giuseppe Branca and author Donato Zoppo.
“Something is the greatest love song ever written,” declared Frank Sinatra, one of the most passionate supporters of the song with which George Harrison obtained the A-side of a Beatles single for the first time, which after Yesterday has become the most celebrated of the Beatles songbook. Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Shirley Bassey, Mina and many other artists have interpreted Harrison's song: a sign that there is something magical, special, unrepeatable in this extraordinary song. As Michelangelo Iossa (one of the most authoritative scholars of the Beatles world in Italy) writes in the preface, “Something is an absolute jewel, clear as few songs can be. A song whose lyrics never say “I love you” but from which emerge the wonders of Love, of that meeting between souls capable of changing lives, the fates of people, of humanity, of the community, of families, of couples”.
The new book by Donato Zoppo (fresh from the success of his work on Lucio Battisti) tells the story of the Beatles in 1969: the troubled sessions of Get Back up to the famous Rooftop concert, the progressive dissolution of the group between solo initiatives and legal squabbles, the final blow of Abbey Road and its resounding success, the photo on the pedestrian crossing and the release of the single that definitively consigns Harrison's compositional talent to history. The introverted and mystical Beatle, who contributed to the dialogue between East and West, is at the center of a narrative that describes the birth of the song, the relationship with Pattie Boyd and the Indian world, the Beatles environment in its most complex moment, the one that precedes the breakup in 1970.
Something is the first volume in the Songs series, composed of paperback books that will pay homage to some of the most important and beloved songs of Italian and international rock on the occasion of the anniversary of their release.
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