Reach for the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop's Final Party (eBook)

Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize

Michael Cragg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
528 Seiten
Blink Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78870-725-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A Times Book of the YearA Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the Year A Rock 'n' Roll Book Club Book of the YearA Guardian 50 Best Holiday ReadsAn Independent Book of the YearA Mojo Music Book of the Year A Resident Book of the YearA Classic Pop Book of the Year'This really is a wonderful book for pop kids everywhere' - RICHARD OSMANUsing the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. A double-denim-loving time before the glare of social media and the accession of streaming. The bastions of '00s pop - armed with buoyant, immaculately crafted, carefree anthems - provided entertainment, escapism and fun for millions. It was a heady, chorus-heavy decade - populated by the likes of Steps, S Club 7, Blue, 5ive, Mis-Teeq, Hear'Say, Busted, Girls Aloud, McFly, Craig David and Atomic Kitten, among countless others - yet the music was often dismissed as inauthentic, juvenile, not 'worthy' enough: ultimately, a 'guilty pleasure'. Now, music writer Michael Cragg aims to redress that balance. Using the oral-history format, Cragg goes beneath the surface of the bubblegum exterior, speaking to hundred's of the key players about the reality of their experiences. Compiled from interviews with popstars, songwriters, producers, choreographers, magazine editors, record-company executives, TV moguls and more, this is a complete behind-the-scenes history of the last great movement in British pop - a technicolour turning-point ripe for re-evaluation, documented here in astonishing, honest and eye-opening detail.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: 00s • 00s Music • 00s Pop • 2000s • All Saints • Atomic Kitten • Beckham • Billie Piper • Biographies of Pop Musicians • Blue • British pop • Britney Spears • busted • Craig David • Cultural Studies Music • David Beckham • Facing the Music • Five • Girls Aloud • Golden Balls • Hannah Spearritt • Hannah Spearritt, Facing the Music • Man Utd • McFly • Music Books • Music Business • Music History & Criticism • Noughties • Noughties Music • Oral Cultural History • Pop • Pop culture • Pop Music • popular music • Posh and Becks • Rock & Pop Musician Biographies • s club • S Club 7 • Social & Cultural History • Spice Girls • STEPS • uk history • World Cup 1998 • X Factor
• ISBN-10: 1-78870-725-7 / 1788707257
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78870-725-1 / 9781788707251