Please please me : sixties British Pop, inside out / Gordon Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Gordon, 1949- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Great Britain--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Sound recording industry--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Sound recording industry.

Physical Description:

xii, 340 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Please Please Me' offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social context of postwar Britain.

Contents:

Introduction. Approaches and material

The velvet glove: the art of production

A question of balance: engineering art

Mediating change: setting musical directions

The write stuff: songwriters

Red-light fever: musicians

Please please me.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314), discography (pages 281-305), and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772884-7

0-19-988724-1

9786611825928

1-281-82592-1

0-19-971555-6

OCLC:

299159930