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Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
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Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more--iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. Part oral history, part musical analysis, Anatomy of 55 More Songs ranges from Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising to Dionne Warwick's Walk On By, The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Bernie Taupin recalls how he wrote the lyrics to Elton John's Rocket Man; Joan Jett remembers channeling her rage against how she had been unfairly labeled and treated as a female rocker into Bad Reputation; and Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Costello, Bob Weir, Sheryl Crow, Alice Cooper, Roberta Flack, John Mellencamp, Keith Richards, Carly Simon, and many others reveal the emotions and technique behind their major works. Through an absorbing chronological, song-by-song analysis of the most memorable post-war hits, Anatomy of 55 More Songs provides a sweeping look at the evolution of pop music between 1964 and today.
Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
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Marc Myers is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about rock, soul, and jazz, as well as the arts. He also posts daily at JazzWax.com, winner of the 2015 Jazz Journalists Association’s award for Jazz Blog of the Year. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Why Jazz Happened of which Publishers Weekly wrote, “In this energetic and captivating tale,
Myers enthusiastically chronicles the many social, political, legal, and monetary forces outside of music that shaped the evolution of jazz…. Myers’s first-rate social history, like a great jazz recording, pulls us into its complex rhythms and harmonies, casting its mesmerizing spell.”
Source: www.jazzwax.com
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