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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Brothers, Thomas David, author.
Title: Help! : the Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the magic of collaboration / Thomas Brothers.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010059 | ISBN 9780393246230 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular music—History and criticism. | Jazz—History and criticism. | Composition (Music)—Collaboration. | Beatles—Criticism and interpretation. | Ellington, Duke, 1899–1974—Criticism and interpretation.
Classification: LCC ML3470 .B76 2018 | DDC 781.65092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010059
ISBN 978-0-393-24624-7 (e-book)
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