The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The very thought that I was standing in the room where the Beatles recorded the vast majority of their unparalleled music was simply overwhelming.

Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers.About the Author: David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. Hepworth traces the studio’s technological trajectory from 78 shellacs and vinyl LPs to audiotapes, CDs, and streaming.

Rich in historical detail and packed with facts, it evokes memories of all who have recorded there – from Elgar to The Beatles, from Cliff Richard to Pink Floyd, from Sting to Oasis.Unofficially the studio had already been in use for two months, recording the likes of bass-baritone Paul Robeson and pianist Raie Da Costa. The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio --- UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF by David Hepworth. Long before and long after The Beatles, some of the best music in the world was born in those rooms and they are still carrying on as one of the best studios in the world. As an Anglophile, audiophile and unapologetic Beatles nerd, there was slim chance David Hepworth's book would be anything less than a hit with me - and it certainly delivered.

According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry. Formerly a means for reproducing an artist's repertoire, the recording studio was eclipsed by larger, more lasting notions of art and the production and reproduction of sounds originally borne by the creative imagination. All types of music are covered as fitting for the studio, but its hard to avoid the dominance of two giant records that were recorded here: The Beatle’s Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.tp400 This is a rare collectors item published around 15 years ago to celebrate these great Beatles Abbey Road LP with special commemorative Liverpool postmark to accompany and the cover has limited edition hallmark and identification on reverse for full authenticity unused and mint. Those interested in the more technical details might be left disappointed, but that’s not to say Hepworth doesn’t tackle these (particularly in the earlier chapters). Nonetheless this is a fascinating account of the myriad characters who have worked within the hallowed halls of this famous studio from the 1930's to the present day. The Black American Robeson, who was in town playing Othello and renting a flat just down the street from No. Biography: David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies.

Highly recommended for anybody with an interest in the musical recording process and indeed anybody who has had the need to 'cross that bloody road with three mates'. Engineer turned studio manager Ken Townsend rechristened the place “Abbey Road” in the mid-’70s as a way to highlight the building’s relationship with its most famous client and their swansong album of the same name. He does a really meticulous job of here of charting the history of the world-famous studios, and it makes for a fascinating read. As Hepworth powerfully demonstrates, Abbey Road created the firmament for recording artistry, a genre in which the very idea of the studio is upended. Jacqueline du Pré, en usedvanlig begavet cellist som døde av multippel sklerose i en alder av 42 år.The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents. Indeed, a comparable metamorphosis over the past seven to eight decades can be found in almost every other industry. It's very recognisable, but doesn't lend itself so well to fact-based subjects, and as a result this doesn't come across as a definitive history of the famous studios. Telling the story of the infamous studios through the eyes of all those who have walked through its doors, including much unpublished material.