The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs - Couverture souple

Dalley, Jan; Cheal, David

 
9781399800587: The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs
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ISBN 10 : 1399800582 ISBN 13 : 9781399800587
Editeur : Chambers, 2022

Synopsis

Discover the stories behind the songs
THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music fans and send you scurrying back to listen to the songs in all their beauty and mystery.

Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other back stories fill this book.

Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it.

This book collects 100 of the best pieces from the highly successful The Life of a Song columns from the FT Weekend every Saturday. Inside you'll find rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Cheal has been reviewing music since the early 1980s, and was a pop critic for the Daily Telegraph for 20 years. He now works on the Financial Times arts pages, where he writes and commissions the weekly Life of a Song column and also contributes reviews and features. When he was growing up, he wanted to be Jack Bruce but never got round to learning how to play the bass.

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Éditeur
Chambers
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399800582
ISBN 13 
9781399800587
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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