Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Excellent and interesting history of Abbey Road and the recording of artists well before the Beatles in the 60s. Hepworth traces the studio’s technological trajectory from 78 shellacs and vinyl LPs to audiotapes, CDs, and streaming. She has faced abuse and mistreatment of many kinds over the decades, but she touches on the most appalling passages lightly—though not so lightly you don't feel the torment of the media attention on the events leading up to her divorce from Tommy Lee. There is clearly a great respect for the engineers and background staff who helped make some of the world's greatest music.

However, as microphones better captured nuanced vocals, crooners and pop music became more prominent, and an army of fussy technicians (EMI was a “belt-and-braces organization”) stood ready to assist.Improvements to technology expanded what was possible, and it was the lowly “pop” people working in Studio Two who were most willing to innovate (there was also a Studio Three, which was originally intended for singers and small ensembles). This gorgeous book includes material on the artists, the engineers, the technology and the history of Abbey Road. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry.

In recent years, the place has changed hands and faced financial challenges, especially as digital technology has reduced the need for full-service studios.It's no great leap to imagine that as long as human beings love music, they'll be making that fabled pilgrimage, walking in the footsteps of giants for centuries to come.

If that doesn’t seem quite authentic enough, for 90 pounds, the studio’s mastering engineer Geoff Pesche will master any recording to prepare it for release. 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. A short list includes Pablo Casals, Fats Waller, Noel Coward, Glen Miller, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, the Hollies, the Zombies, Pink Floyd, Peter Sellers, Tony Bennet, Burt Bacharach, John Williams, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Kanye West and Lady Gaga. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor.Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the iconic Abbey Road Studios, their history, the recordings made there and the artists who made them. Technological limitations meant everything about a performance had to be perfect from start to finish; if the brass and strings had it nailed, but the percussion was off, there was no option to keep what worked and edit in an improved version of what had been lacking. Magnetic tape, developed by the Germans and only discovered by Britain and America after the Second World War, finally made editing possible, as the poor parts of a performance could literally be cut away, and a more pleasing version inserted in their place.

Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studios is a book which fills a gap in the market. really enjoyed this (and it also randomly helped me with one of my essays that i handed in this semester. The author’s thesis is similarly nuts and bolts: More than just Fab Four headquarters, the studio is where the British record industry, and recording technology, evolved over a century.

With " Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio," David Hepworth affords readers a stirring history of the much-heralded studio and the magic that has transpired within its hallowed walls. Biography: David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. He lives in London, dividing his time between writing for a variety of newspaper and magazines, speaking at events, broadcasting work, podcasting at www. It’s just that I’m mixing in Beatles books with other books as you may have noticed from my last several posts.



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