Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers: Together & Apart - Couverture souple

Vickers, Graham

 
9781780383071: Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers: Together & Apart
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 178038307X ISBN 13 : 9781780383071
Editeur : Omnibus Press, 2013

Synopsis

The first joint biography of one of rock n roll s greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan s famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen anthems and timeless ballads for Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Bobby Darin, Del Shannon and Andy Williams among others. Polio-stricken ex-blues shouter Pomus always attracted the press coverage, but after the duo split junior partner Shuman proved the more colourful of the two, acting in films, writing musicals, joining the post-Beatles British beat boom and eventually becoming a chart-topping singer-composer in his own right in of all places France. The story of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, writing together and individually, reveals a personal dynamic that was both warm and difficult but which at its height produced songs like Teenager In Love , Save The Last Dance For Me , Surrender , Little Sister , (Marie s The Name) His Latest Flame , This Magic Moment and Lonely Avenue .

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À propos de l'auteur

Graham Vickers is a freelance writer on the subjects of design, advertising, movies and popular culture. His other books include 21st Century Hotel, Key Moments in Architecture, Chasing Lolita and Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The first joint biography of one of rock n roll s greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan s famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen anthems and timeless ballads for Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Bobby Darin, Del Shannon and Andy Williams among others. Polio-stricken ex-blues shouter Pomus always attracted the press coverage, but after the duo split junior partner Shuman proved the more colourful of the two, acting in films, writing musicals, joining the post-Beatles British beat boom and eventually becoming a chart-topping singer-composer in his own right in of all places France. The story of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, writing together and individually, reveals a personal dynamic that was both warm and difficult but which at its height produced songs like Teenager In Love , Save The Last Dance For Me , Surrender , Little Sister , (Marie s The Name) His Latest Flame , This Magic Moment and Lonely Avenue .

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Éditeur
Omnibus Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178038307X
ISBN 13 
9781780383071
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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