Andrew Jackson is the author of the 1965: THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY YEAR IN MUSIC, WHERE’S RINGO?, and STILL THE GREATEST: THE ESSENTIAL SONGS OF THE BEATLES’ SOLO CAREERS.
Jackson has written for Rolling Stone, Yahoo!, Slate’s “Blogging the Beatles,” Baseline Studio System, music magazines Burn Lounge, Mean Street, and Dispatch, and copyedited the Hollywood monthly magazine Ingenue. He directed and cowrote the feature film The Discontents starring Perry King and Amy Madigan and served as actor Jeff Bridges’s development associate at AsIs Productions. He lives in Los Angeles.
Check out STILL THE GREATEST websites http://www.solobeatles.com and http://www.facebook.com/solobeatlebook
STILL THE GREATEST has been recommended by USA TODAY, excerpted in ROLLING STONE.COM, and nominated for the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Best Research in Recorded Rock Music Award. Check out the links here:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/story/2012-09-06/take-5-weekend-staff-picks/57631988/1
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-paul-mccartney-goes-from-eleanor-rigby-to-silly-love-songs-and-back-again-20120816
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-john-lennons-last-rebirth-on-the-stormy-seas-in-borrowed-time-20120815
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-george-harrison-realizes-its-time-to-move-on-from-the-beatles-20120817
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/book-excerpt-ringo-starr-realizes-a-dream-with-his-1970-country-album-20120818
Interview with Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-personal-triumphs-tragedies-helped-propel-beatles-solo-career
Interview with Culture Magazine:
http://ireadculture.com/2012/10/news/buzz/all-you-need-is-bud/
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