Dancing about Architecture

Dancing About Architecture reveals how J&P's very first song, Love Me Do, showcased from the start their individual songwriting fingerprints; how John contributed to the quintessential Paulson, Yesterday; what makes a Johnsong a Johnsong and a Paulsong a Paulsong; and, among other things, what such different songs as She Said She Said and Good Day Sunshine have in common, or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and She's Leaving Home, or Martha My Dear and I'm So Tired and Sexy Sadie.Dancing About Architecture traces the individual fingerprints of J&P on each of their 162 collaborations from Love Me Do to The Long and Winding Road, and I Saw Her Standing There) to the more complex (Getting Better and Happiness Is a Warm Gun) to their culmination in the Abbey Road medley; and provides thumbnails for the structures of each song.Dancing About Architecture is about songwriting more than songwriters and for songwriters more than fans, tracking as it does the expansion of their repertoire through each musical discover from song to song, album to album, and triumph to triumph until elanem were sitting on top of the world.