Why Don't We Do It in the Road? The Beatles Phenomenon

John Astley deploys his forensic skills as a sociologist to develop an original take on the kaleidoscopic landscape that gave birth to The Beatles phenomenon . . .The reader is invited to take a peep back into the recent past - at the post- War years in England. . .the trembling class structure of an exhausted society. . .and the advent of global communications in the 1960s as the music industry and British culture is unmade and remade . . .Put another way, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?” is question that has gone answered for four decades - until now. John Astley is a writer and lecturer - and is a frequent contributor to journals, conferences, and radio talks. As a sociologist of culture, he is also the author of three volumes of collected essays: Liberation & Domestication, Culture & Creativity, and Professionalism & Practice. John Astley is currently working on Herbivores and Carnivores, a timely investigation into cultural values in contemporary society.Astley, John is the author of 'Why Don't We Do It in the Road? The Beatles Phenomenon' with ISBN 9780955183478 and ISBN 0955183472.