The Beatles - from the beginning (1962-1966). Tomo 1, is the new release of journalist Sergio Marchi with musician Fernando Blanco (member of the Super Mice and member of Cloud 9). Both did a meticulous job and investigated each of the details that appear in the prolific discography of the Fab Four between With The Beatles and Revolver, inclusive.

With seven titles published, that include great stories about Charly García, Pappo and Roger Waters, and with a history with Blanco in Beatlend (2009); Marchi spoke with La Vereda about this new work.

Beatlend was precisely the trigger for this joint work. That book told stories behind the British solo careers and had an important impact., fact that “surprised” both, thus causing them to write something about the Liverpool musicians. “The natural focus that was given to us is on the music. There are many books that tell the story, do sociological or psychological analyzes, but there are not so many who talk about the music itself. How it was made, how did they come about to do it, the instruments they played, the innovations that were developed”, points out the author who in turn affirms that “from that, without looking for it, we got our own and Argentine look. That's what sets the book apart., because we find things that are not in other books. further, The Beatles books in Spanish, they do not exist, except for a few translations”.

As a fan of the group you will know a thousand stories and anecdotes. Did you discover something new or something that you had overlooked after writing the publication with Fernando?

Yes, we found many new things. Because The Beatles are still the new thing, or do they continue to function as a manual for the new. There are things from the present that were influenced by The Beatles, or are a direct or indirect consequence of things they did. We did a lot of research for this book., and in that process things emerged like the influence of French experimental music on a song of theirs, Graham Nash's grudge over another issue, like by accident (o no) George Harrison's vocation for Hinduism is born, or as in another song they seek to imitate the effect of puffing on a joint.

Which disk provides the most material for analysis??

They are all interesting, because grace is in the completed work; in how each step served to reach the next: how they developed their compositional muscle, his revolutionary ideas, and how their mistakes were the route to new successes. “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” are the most analyzed, but all the others serve to understand what was and what was going to be. There is a whole story that appears when you have all the pieces.

You always mentioned your admiration for Ringo but, during the first stage of the group, Which member do you think had the greatest growth musically??

I think Paul, who was inventing a style to play the bass. Ringo had a defined style from the beginning, but it was going to evolve more in the other stage (described in Volume II)

There have been analyzes of the Beatles' albums and perhaps their most die-hard fans think they know everything about the group, so what do you think is the greatest contribution of this book to Beatle history??

Put together a bunch of pieces scattered in different books, and analyze everything together, offers you a completely different panorama. You arrive at conclusions that you can only obtain with the perspective of time and the accumulation of material. Both Fernando and I studied all this long before thinking about the book. But we discovered that there were many things we needed to know, and we believe that the reader will share our own surprise with the discoveries. We tell how they made the music as if we had heard it for the first time.

With so much analysis done, added to part of the name of the book, fans of the band will be eager to know if there will be a volume soon 2. Marchi anticipates and assures that “the second is coming” and immediately explains that “we made it in two volumes so that the reader would not have to spend so much money on a single book of more than 700 pages. In addition to the fact that such a thick book offers many manual difficulties for the reader. It was an idea of ​​the publisher, and it didn't take us long to realize that it was the ideal format”.

What story did you enjoy writing the most??

One thing is that I enjoyed writing something, but this book was written in pairs, and I also really enjoyed researching something based on a text by Fernando, that triggered some detail that I had not taken into account. And it also happens that I enjoy reading other things, or when they read a paragraph on the radio and I say who wrote this? I really liked researching “Beatles For Sale”, I think we found a different approach that had not been written.

Why do you think that so many years after their separation and all the musical cultures that happened there is still material or things to write about the Beatles??

Because they were sensational, wonderful, unique and unrepeatable. The Beatles continue to be an inexhaustible source of musical and human resources as well. They had everything against, and finally they triumphed like no one has ever triumphed or triumphed again. They were four provincials who knew nothing, and they taught us everything. You learn from them all the time. I ended up tired of listening to them: I do it since 1974. When we finish the book, I said I wasn't going to listen to them again for a year.. When the time for final correction came, my daughter played the Wii with the Beatles Rock Band. I put on headphones and realized I had never listened to them with headphones since the remaster.. And I found new things, textures that I had not noticed. There I realized that it is something like life: you never finish learning everything. The Beatles are that: life. You just have to know how to listen.