Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
by Bob Stanley
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For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on Saturday; you lent it to, or taped it for, a friend; and they reciprocated with another record. This book covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip hop, indie, house and techno.
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This is great. It's a chapter from Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, a comprehensive history of pop music that I'm reading right now. Anyone with too many vinyl records needs to get a copy and read it.
on “The elephant in the discotheque: the Bee Gees (2014)” ↗I highly recommend the book this is taken from: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music by Bob Stanley. Bob Stanley was a music journalist who founded the beautiful group St Etienne. There is no one I can think of better qualified to talk about pop and dance music…
on “The elephant in the discotheque: the Bee Gees (2014)” ↗