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

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He does a really meticulous job of here of charting the history of the world-famous studios, and it makes for a fascinating read.

He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music program The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. 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. As an Anglophile, audiophile and unapologetic Beatles nerd, there was slim chance David Hepworth's book would be anything less than a hit with me - and it certainly delivered. Of course, I especially liked reading about The Beatles and how they recorded at the studios, and as I read, I found myself yearning to visit the studios.In the early 1930s, English composer Edward Elgar conducted the historic recording sessions at EMI Studios for "Pomp and Circumstance," the series of five marches that would immortalize his name — the march entitled "The Land of Hope and Glory" emerged as a British sporting anthem, while "The Light of Life" became the signature melody for American graduation ceremonies. He presented the definitive BBC rock music program Whistle Test and anchored the BBC's coverage of Live Aid in 1985. There is clearly a great respect for the engineers and background staff who helped make some of the world's greatest music. Excellent and interesting history of Abbey Road and the recording of artists well before the Beatles in the 60s. David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies.

Being lucky enough to enter Abbey Road it was strange to hear stories about the rooms and studios I have entered. As we get closer to the present day, there's more opinion, with a definite undercurrent of nostalgia, which perhaps is understandable, and anyway never veers too close to grumpy old man territory. One key advancement was the use of tapes - apparently the Germans were much further advanced than the Allies by the end of WW2 so their knowledge was put to good use.

All types of music are covered as fitting for the studio, but its hard to avoid the dominance of two giant records that were recorded here: The Beatle’s Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. The 18th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The State of Our Union Could Be Better Major record labels were once notorious for trying to e. For me, the main and most interesting point to taker from the narrative is that the music that we have listened to and loved was the product of a combination of the artists themselves who supplied the vision of what they wanted to achieve, and the technicians and producers, without whom the sounds that we hear could not have been made reality. There's also a detailed history of the machinations of classical music recordings under the helm of renowned conductors back in the early days.

Aller mest kjent for platene The Beatles spilte inn der, ikke minst fordi det siste bandet spilte inn i studioet fikk navnet Abbey Road. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio by David Hepworth | 9781529177251.Just about everything that David Hepworth sublimely documents happening at Abbey Road, the studio, serves as a fabulous historical template with implications and lessons far beyond the music business. The Beatles and Pink Floyd get the most prominence, but it also covers the many other genres and roles the studio covers - classical, film scores, mastering etc, all feature heavily. And last, but not least, is that Fearon is very brief but concise about the history and meaning of each song limiting them to one page that includes: title, which Beatles recorded it, written by, recording date, release date and title of the album it appeared on. Indeed, a comparable metamorphosis over the past seven to eight decades can be found in almost every other industry. He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation's coverage of Live Aid in 1985.