A monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock around the Clock" (1954) to Beyoncé's first megahit, "Crazy in Love" (2003). Bob Stanley_himself a musician, music critic, and fan_teases out the connections and tensions that animated the pop charts for decades, and ranges across the birth of rock, soul, R&amp;B, punk, hip hop, indie, house, techno, and more. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a vital guide to the rich soundtrack of the second half of the twentieth century and a book as much fun to argue with as to quote.

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

Arts & Photography

BOB STANLEY

Music

Faber & Faber Rock Music

The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.\n'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll. Fascinating. I can't recommend it enough.' 
CAITLIN MORAN\n'An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the Twentieth Century.' 
NEIL TENNANT\n'A perfect guidebook, filled with smart thinking and the kind of communicable enthusiasm that sends you rushing to the nearest streaming service, eager to hear what all the fuss was about.' 
ALEXIS PETRIDIS, GUARDIAN\nPop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century . . .\nWho were the earliest record stars, and were they in any meaningful way 'pop stars'? Who were the likes of George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after the Second World War?\nThe prequel to Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together.\nBringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life - from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning and beyond - Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers.\n'Inspired.' THE TIMES 
'Remarkable.' CLASSIC ROCK 
'Exhilarating.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 
'Essential.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 
'A joyous read.' THE ECONOMIST 
'Wholly entertaining.' MOJO 
'Great fun.' LITERARY REVIEW 
'Colossal.' UNCUT 
'A joy.' RECORD COLLECTOR 
'A triumph.' LOUD & QUIET

LETS DO IT: The Birth of Pop

FABER & FABER OME

Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

Faber&Faber

This collection of covers of official UK football programs--in American, that's soccer programs--includes every league club active from the end of World War II to the start of the Premiership (1992), which comes to more than 100 teams from across the United Kingdom. It covers the golden age of British football, a time of local pride and growing success, of "Roy of the Rovers" good feeling, all of which is reflected in period designs, colorful graphics and charming illustrations, far from the glossy corporate memorabilia that fans accumulate today. These pieces are rare and highly collectible, and the majority are reproduced in this book for the first time, but more importantly for most readers, they offer an armchair anthropologist's trip through 1960s, 70s and 80s England. By Bob Stanley, who worked as a freelance music writer with NME and Melody Maker before forming the group Saint Etienne, and with an introduction by Brian Glanville, a highly regarded sports writer and a leading authority on British soccer.

Match Day: Official Football Programmes: Post-war to Premiership

Paul, Kelley

Reference

FUEL Publishing

Saint Etienne

Sarah Cracknell

Pete Wiggs

First Third Books Ltd

Driver's Ed [Unabridged] [Audiobook]

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Bee Gees: Children of the World: A Times Book of the Year

Nine Eight Books

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