It's One For The Money (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
480
Utgivningsdatum
2016-07-07
Utmärkelser
Long-listed for Penderyn Music Book Prize 2016 (UK)
Förlag
Constable
Illustrationer
no internal images or plate section
Dimensioner
198 x 125 x 31 mm
Vikt
380 g
ISBN
9781472122117

It's One For The Money

av Clinton Heylin
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-07-07
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Song publishing is the one constant in the carousel of recorded music now spanning the past century, and has been the way that song-credits and publishing revenue have caused ructions and recriminations, and inspired writers by making them poor and lawyers rich. Whether it be Procul Harum going to court to decide who really wrote Whiter Shade of Pale or the Moody Blues wanting their fair share of Nights of White Satin, when the song-credits get divvied up, a parting of the ways citing musical differences is almost inevitable. So here are some choice examples of poplore held up to the light,some familiar to music fans others not, designed to prove that Dylan knew of what he wrote when he suggested, Money doesnt talk, it swears. Between them, they provide the unvarnished story of popular song from the days jukeboxes and radio replaced wax cylinders and piano rolls to the era of digital downloads, legal and illegal...
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A terrific guide to the evolution of the popular song Spectator * Spectator * [A] meticulous study of music publishing, plagiarism and song ownership -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times * Fascinating stuff, intensively researched and utterly intriguing -- Fred Dellar * Mojo * Fabulously well-researched ... it's a story well told, in eye-popping detail * Independent *

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Clinton Heylin is the author of biographies of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, and histories of US and UK punk (From The Velvets To The Voidoids and Babylons Burning), he has tackled every aspect of pop music and culture in a 25-year career as a full-time author/historian.

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