The idea was that if someone requested a song that the musician didn't know, he or she would look up the title in one of their fake books and "fake" a new arrangement to the song. He balances seductive anecdotes – pulling back the curtain on the gritty and absurd side of the industry – with an insightful exploration of the relationship between creativity and money. As known for her fraught personal life as her chart-topping songs, Amy Winehouse who died at the age of 27 in July 2011 was one of the most compelling vocalists in the world.

Some early books use a Pacific Popular nameplate and some late-sixties books say 'Elite', but no further information is known at this time. The Beatles Songbook is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released on 18 November 2022 by Warner Music Italy and PDU.

A complete sheet music/book collection would comprise over 400 pieces, not including countless reissues and variations. One of the oddities that’s included is the the copyright for Don't Pass Me By which is listed as published by Apple Publishing as it originally was instead of the updated Startling Music.

No Apple catalog on inside covers, sheet music with cover for the song Let It Be is bound with the rest of the book. Group 1969-1970 joint compositions such as Dig It and the Beatles arrangement of Maggie Mae, while copyrighted to Northern Songs, Harrisongs and Startling Music, were controlled in the USA by Maclen/ATV, hence their appearance in this book. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. The chords are not complete--they leave out some of the incidental changes, but there are enough there that you get that Beatle sound.All editions of this songbook came shrink wrapped since the poster wasn't attached to anything in the book. Beatles songbooks are notoriously inaccurate, but there are a few out there that are damn close and damn good. It's so nice to find a Beatles calendar that doesn't have just the same old Beatles album covers on every page. Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis’s thoughts through such anecdotes and other recorded facts. I was a bit disappointed that it didn't have the two new Anthology songs, but that's somewhat understandable.