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| KeithS SUBS 3rd Jul 2021 |  | BookEd Ward - The History Of Rock & Roll, Volume I: 1920-1963 | ReviewI've read so many books purporting to tell the history of Rock and Roll and so very few are worth the trouble....this one was surprisingly interesting and told the story in a conversational style interspersed with little asides which prompted a "Ooh, I didn't know that" Eventually he comes to the British invasion...and here was where a few alarm bells started ringing. Apparently British teenagers learned all about US Rock and roll from Decca's London-American label..naming Mimi Trepel as the lady who signed up all those legendary labels for UK consumption. London-American existed thanks to Mantovani, who's sales in the US allowed Decca to do reciprocate deals - taking US artists to the UK!!!!! Every UK teenager had the iconic "blue and silver labeled discs with their triangular centres, in their collections.!!! A few pages later talking about Cliff Richard, the Shadows were recording for HMV. These annoyingly, silly mistakes could have been so easily checked by a proof reader but otherwise I quite enjoyed this book. Another plus is the attempted index that most book in the genre seem to ignore 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
| KeithS SUBS 25th Sep 2020 |  | BookClive Selwood - All The Moves (But None Of The Licks) | ReviewInteresting ......Selwood began with Vogue and Decca then Philips and worked for many UK labels in sales..Salvo, Century 21 and Elektra. His association with Johns Peel is probably best known along with their Dandelion label and has many tales to tell of the people they signed ....the Gene Vincent chapter is a little sad. He must have met all the important names in the record industry at one time or the other..Clive Davis, Kim Fowley, The Doors, Don Arden, Johnathan King 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
| KeithS SUBS 15th Aug 2019 |  | BookMichael James Roberts - Tell Tchaikovsky The News | ReviewThe story of the US Musicians Union's elitist attitude through the years ...that demanded a prospective member must be able to read music before admittance. Beginning with members who were Clasically trained -through to Jazz musicians who also thought themselves to be so much higher than Pop and Rock and Roll musicians - and how they fought to keep their ranks unsullied by these untrained newcomers. They may be selling lots of music but were not thought of as "Musicians" but "Entertainers" Interesting to read correspondence between the Union and Government about restricting English Pop Groups like The Beatles from touring the USA "as there are many musicians here in the US who can do the job - probably more effectively" The Union's publications never once mentioned Rock and Roll in any form until well into the late 1960's..and then only as a passing comment 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
| KeithS SUBS 16th Sep 2018 |  | BookHåkan Lahger - Hög Standard | ReviewGreat shame that this is only available in Swedish at present because the rise and fall of record companies is always interesting reading. Sonet began because of a burning musical interest in Jazz..at that time the youth music of the after war years in Sweden. Enthusiastic young men contacted US record firms through the Swedish Embassy's commercial registers and got an answer back from Savoy and were able to import discs and sell to a market hungry for product. Visiting Jazz musicians on European tours were recorded and a network of contacts was soon built up. By 1958 it was obvious that Jazz was on the wane and similar overtures were made to US companies like Chancellor, Roulette and Canadian American offering Scandinavian representation where that was not already covered by Decca and EMI in the UK. Sonet kept its small label values and many interviews with Artists contracted to the label all tell of a distinct family feel ..all were welcomed and nurtured. Interesting also is the views of other label bosses working with Sonet ..Chess, Alligator, Island, Mute. Monetary rewards were only for re investing in another music project. Nobody starved at Sonet but Music making was by far the more important to them. This book and the one about Metronome Records deserves translation as 45Cat has shown that there is an interest in other that UK and US companies 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
| KeithS SUBS 11th Jul 2017 |  | BookClinton Heylin - Bootleg | ReviewThis book ...unlike 45Cat...makes a distinction between "Bootleg" and "Pirate" but from past experiences, no matter what one suggests, an arm-waving attack will come from somewhere with a completely different take on the subject. So it has always been, and depends on which parts of the music industry you have been involved with...or not. One take is that a Bootleg gives you the chance of hearing music that has not been authorised by the Record Company or artist.Should we accept their restrictions "Only this is what you may listen to" Piracy is much older - Shakespeare's plays were copied by people in the audience writing down the lines. The discs for mechanical pianos were copied without permission..big selling 78's were illegally copied and distributed. Copyright laws date back to printers rights to circulate Shakespeare's plays , or the rights to produce piano rolls and sheet music and thus have not been amended with the same speed that technology rushes ahead. This book carries many interviews with the shady characters who produced Bootleg discs and all say a similar thing. "Why should Record Companies react so violently..they were never going to produce this stuff anyway..its not affecting their economy" These "unauthorised" discs were never produced in large quantities and their original selling prices were not exorbitant..so the main reason for their existence was a love of the music rather than financial gain. Many Bootleg discs were even bootlegged by other bootleggers but legallity always comes to the fore. US laws differ from Europe..so produce in Germany and sell where you want...the loopholes caused uncertainty. There's bound to be alternative views of this industry but the book is informative 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
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3rd Jul 2021:Ed Ward - The History Of Rock & Roll, Volume I: 1920-1963 - Flatiron - Paperback - USA - 9781250138491 (2017)
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15th Aug 2019:Michael James Roberts - Tell Tchaikovsky The News - Duke University Press - Paperback - USA - 9780822354758 (2014)
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