Backbeat Books | Backbeat Books
Mar.12.2010
In this prime collection of first-hand interviews, 37 of the world's top record producers share their creative secrets and hit-making techniques, from the practical to the aesthetic. George Martin reveals the technical and musical challenges of working with the Beatles, while Phil Ramone, producer...
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Mar.11.2010
Like its predecessor, Behind The Glass (originally published in 2000 by Backbeat Books and still in print), Behind the Glass Volume II presents another prime collection of firsthand interviews with the world's top record producers and engineers, sharing their creative secrets and hit-making...
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Feb.21.2008
As they create genres, smash myths, invent styles and make way for the future, the musicians you'llmeet here keep rock's fire of rebellion burning. From vintage rock'n'rollers, to bands of the new wave, next wave and beyond, these iconoclasts walk the commercial edge to crash the borders and...
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Feb.21.2008
The White Stripes don't merely stand on the shoulders of giants. They are giants themselves. The White Stripes had to come along if rock'n'roll was to survive in the 21st Cnetury. Just like punk rock had to put a stop to the endless torture of studio-bloated excess in the 1970s, the White...
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Jan.30.2008
Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock
Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock is a 300-page book with in-depth profiles of nineteen fascinating cult artists of the 1960s, in all cases including first-hand interview material with the artists themselves and/or their close...
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Jan.30.2008
Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll is a 422-page book with in-depth profiles of sixty of the most interesting overlooked cult rock artists of all time, in all cases including first-hand interview material with the artists themselves and/or their close associates. The book also includes a 12-song, 45-...
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Jan.29.2008
The second half of the two-volume history of 1960s folk-rock, which saw the movement branch off into folk-rock-psychedelia, singer-songwriters, country-rock, a distinctively British form of folk-rock, and more. While the Byrds, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and other folk-rock originals...
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Jan.29.2008
Turn! Turn! Turn!: The 1960s Folk-Rock Revolution is the first volume of the first comprehensive history of one of the greatest movements in rock music, drawing upon interviews with more than 100 musicians, producers, managers, and journalists involved in the music. The book covers the birth and...
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Jan.29.2008
The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film details the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not release, as well as musical footage of the group that hasn't been made commercially available. The 400-page, 8 1/2" X 11"-sized, illustrated book examines all unreleased...
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Jan.10.2008
Earth's first book dedicated to Southern rap music and culture
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