The Producers
Will be published approx. on 7. July 2022
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-571-35138-1 (ISBN)
Description
Starting in 1956 with Sam Phillips at Sun Studios, this is a rich, eccentric, and definitive history of great record producers throughout the years. From Lee Scratch Perry to Nigel Godrich, Qunicy Jones to Phil Spector, King Tubby to Steve Albini, legendary music journalist and pop cultural commentator Paul Morley has crafted a unique and catholic survey of the magicians behind the music. He examines their unconventional methods in the studio, revealing how producers silently shaped the sounds that were made and committed to vinyl. Brimming with mad, brilliant anecdotes of wildly eccentric behaviour, Morley's hidden history of modern music reveals how these offstage characters forged the musical landscape of the twentieth century.
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Person
Writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic Paul Morley has written about music, art, and entertainment since the 1970s. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983 and has also been a band manager as well as a television presenter. A founding member of the electronic collective Art of Noise and a member of staff at the Royal Academy of Music, Morley is the author of Ask: Chatter of Pop; Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City; Piece by Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977-2007; Earthbound; The North; and Nothing,while he also collaborated with Grace Jones on her memoir, I'll Never Write My Memoirs. Morley's most recent book is the Sunday Times bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week The Age of Bowie, and his book on Michael Jackson, The Awfully Big Adventure, is published by Faber in March 2019.