Download or read book The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles written by M. Schneider and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the musical and cultural achievements of this contemporary musical phenomenon to its origin in the Romantic revolution of the 1790's in England when traditional concepts of literature, politics, education and social relationships were challenged as they were in the 1960's.