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Classic Tracks: Back To Back
Albums & Singles
Various Contributors
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640 PAGES with over 1,400 images
ISBN: 978-1-59223-872-9
£14.95 / $19.95
March 2008
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Classic Tracks Back To Back is a richly illustrated chronological history of popular music from the 1950s to the present day. Albums tells the stories behind more than 50 years of great recordings, from In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra to Radiohead's In Rainbows. Flip the book upside down for Singles, which charts six decades of hot hits and cool cuts by everyone from Bill Haley to Britney Spears.
Albums details the making of 400 of the most important albums of the past 50 years -- the bestselling and most critically acclaimed records from a wide range of musical genres. It looks at the influence of technology and commerce on the artistic process and the different ways that albums have been made and released over the years, from vinyl LP to internet download. From big studio orchestrations like the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds to Moby''s home-recorded Play; from the painstaking overdubbing of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon to the rough edges of Nevermind by Nirvana; it's all here. Albums puts the spotlight on individual records and presents them in a wider context, taking a fresh look at the history of popular music from a unique perspective.
Singles covers more than 750 records by over 500 artists, from the primitive cool of "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen to the complex technological feats behind Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and from the peerless disco of Abba's "Dancing Queen" to the precocious teen-pop of "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. It looks in detail at the musical genres that work best in the shorter format, including rock'n'roll, Motown, punk, disco, rap, and more, and profiles the unsung heroes behind the great recordings of the past and the impact of radio, television, and the internet on the life of the single.
Contributors include:
Thomas Jerome Seabrook is a contributor to the Faber Companion To Twentieth Century Popular Music and the Totally Interactive Band Bible, and the author of the new Jawbone title Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town.
Johnny Black is a journalist and author and former head of press at Polydor Records.
Tamara Palmer is the author Country Fried Soul: Adventures In Dirty South Hip Hop.8/12.
Rikky Rooksby is the author of the bestselling How To Write Songs On Guitar.
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