List of Contributors List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: A Thousand Voices; I.Inglis Men of Ideas? Popular Music, Anti-intellectualism and the Beatles; I.Inglis Coming out of the Rhetoric of 'Merseybeat': Conversations with Joe Flannery; M.Brocken The Beatles and the Spectacle of Youth; J.Muncie Lennon-McCartney and the Early British Invasion 1964-1966; J.Fitzgerald From Me to You: Austerity to Profligacy in the Language of the Beatles; G.Cook & N.Mercer The Postmodern White Album; E.Whitley You Can't Do That: The Beatles, Artistic Freedom and Censorship; M.Cloonan Tell Me What You See: the Influence and Impact of the Beatles' Movies; B.Neaverson The Celebrity Legacy of the Beatles; P.D.Marshall Refab Four: Beatles for Sale in the Age of Music Video; G.Burns 'Sitting in an English Garden': Comparing Representations of 'Britishness' in the Songs of the Beatles and 1990s Britpop Groups; A.Bennett Index