Solid State (eBook)

The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles

Kenneth Womack (Autor)

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2019
288 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4687-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road, the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... Womack displays a detailed and insightful analysis that fans will hope he applies to the band's other albums. Publishers Weekly 
Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.

In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound, and included "Come Together," "Something," and "Here Comes the Sun," which all emerged as classics. Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles.

Solid State takes readers back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studio, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk. Womack focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside (for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other novelties.

As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the instrumental skills, recording equipment, and artistic vision that the band and George Martin had developed since their early days in the same studio seven years earlier. A testament to the group's creativity and their producer's ingenuity, Solid State is required reading for all fans of the Beatles and the history of rock 'n' roll.

Autor

Kenneth Womack's previous books about the Beatles include Long and Winding Roads and The Beatles Encyclopedia. He is also the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography of Sir George Martin, Maximum Volume and Sound Pictures. Womack is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. Follow him on X @KennethAWomack and visit kennethwomack.com for more Beatles history and insight.

Inhalt

Foreword by Alan Parsons, by Alan Parsons
Introduction: "Unmitigated Disaster"
1. EMI TG12345 Mk1
2. Stereophonic Sound
3. Tales of Men and Moog
4. "The Long One"
5. The Wind-Up Piano and Mrs. Mills
6. Virtuosi
7. Tittenhurst Park
8. Letting It Be
9. Solid State
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Vorwort: Alan Parsons
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w halftones, 7 color halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 1969 • Abbey Road • ART • Beatlemania • Beatles • Beatles, Recording Artistry, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr, Martin, Emerick, Abbey Road • British Art • British history • Classic Rock • Come Together • Emerick • EMI • George Harrison • George Martin • Golden slumbers • Harrison • Iconic album cover • John Lennon • Lennon • Martin • McCartney • Medley • musical experimentation • Musical History • musical theory music pop culture • music writing • Paul McCartney • Recording Artistry • Ringo Starr • Rock history • rock music • rock music history • Rock n Roll • Starr • Studio album • The Beatles
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-4687-1 / 1501746871
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4687-1 / 9781501746871