Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Just about everything that David Hepworth sublimely documents happening at Abbey Road, the studio, serves as a fabulous historical template with implications and lessons far beyond the music business. The poetry (more accurately described as italicized notes-to-self with line breaks) remains strewn liberally through the pages, often summarizing the takeaway or the emotional impact of the events described: "I was / and still am / an exceptionally / easy target.

It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged - nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself. On the management side of the industry, the book has much to say about George Martin, the producer, instrumentalist, and mentor to the Fab Four. An esteemed music critic and journalist, Hepworth provides us with a deep dive into the story behind the 91-year-old facility, a stirring narrative that mirrors pop music's twists and turns from its earliest days through the present. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Ample ink is given to Abbey Road-clients Pink Floyd and their 1973 epic Dark Side of the Moon, and to the studio’s partnership with the film sound and music company Anvil, which led to the recording of motion picture scores in Studio One.Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, since the well-told anecdotes and memorable character sketches are what make it a page-turner. Being lucky enough to enter Abbey Road it was strange to hear stories about the rooms and studios I have entered. There’s a fine line between “those studio folks sure contributed” and “the Beatles would have been nothing without their technical minders,” but Hepworth walks it well. His non-rock writing has appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, on Wakefield Patch, and elsewhere. As Hepworth powerfully demonstrates, Abbey Road created the firmament for recording artistry, a genre in which the very idea of the studio is upended.

He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music program The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. She has faced abuse and mistreatment of many kinds over the decades, but she touches on the most appalling passages lightly—though not so lightly you don't feel the torment of the media attention on the events leading up to her divorce from Tommy Lee. There's also a detailed history of the machinations of classical music recordings under the helm of renowned conductors back in the early days. The Black American Robeson, who was in town playing Othello and renting a flat just down the street from No.It also has some great insights and commentary on the cultural changes that regularly revolutionise the music business e. There is clearly a great respect for the engineers and background staff who helped make some of the world's greatest music.

David Hepworth skriver som vanlig med stort hjerte for musikken og menneskene, med gripende formuleringer og mange tiår med innsikt i populærmusikkens vesen.

You will come away dazzled by all of the dots Hepworth connects behind the scenes here, in what in many ways is the soundtrack of our lives. He lives in London, dividing his time between writing for a variety of newspaper and magazines, speaking at events, broadcasting work, podcasting at www. While still a working recording studio, in a world where anyone with a laptop can make a record in their bedroom, Abbey Road has had to be creative.