Tim Riley

From Censorship In The Arts to Do The Beatles Still Matter? -- web producer, campus speaker, and pianist Tim Riley brings an incisive critical perspective to the underlying class, race, and sexual orientation themes of the free speech debate

• Author of Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After; Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary; Madonna: Illustrated; and Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender In America , and the latest Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
• NPR rock critic and Journalist-in-Residence at Emerson College
• Commentator on Social Media: Convergence Journalism and the New Profiteers

“Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work and its impact on popular music, Tell Me Why is meticulous in its purpose and long overdue....Of the hundreds of books written about [the Beatles] none bring the musical knowledge and the familiarity with the period that Riley offers here."

- Cleveland Plain

"Tim Riley's Fever combines brainy and audacious cultural analysis with genuine musical understanding -- a combination rare enough to inspire exhilaration."

- Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tim Page on Music

"Shrewdly balanced -- with musicology as important as sociology -- [Riley] offers Beatles criticism of unprecedented fullness."

- Kirkus Reviews