Fabulous Creation (eBook)

How the LP Saved Our Lives

David Hepworth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
384 Seiten
Transworld (Verlag)
978-1-4735-4177-1 (ISBN)

Infos

_________ Hepworth s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP s golden age The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with Sgt Pepper ; The Beatles didn t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make An Album. The end came only fifteen years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson s Thriller . By then the Walkman had taken music out of the home and into the streets and the record business had begun trying to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to make big money. Nobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again.It was a short but transformative time. Musicians became artists and we, the people, patrons of the arts. The LP itself had been a mark of sophistication, a measure of wealth, an instrument of education, a poster saying things you dare not say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex, and, for many, the single most desirable object in their lives.This is the story of that time; it takes us from recording studios where musicians were doing things that had never been done before to the sparsely furnished apartments where their efforts would be received like visitations from a higher power. This is the story of how LPs saved our lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• ISBN-10: 1-4735-4177-8 / 1473541778
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4177-1 / 9781473541771