Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Published on 7. July 2014
624 pages
978-0-393-24270-6 (ISBN)
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"[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it." —Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
A monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock around the Clock” (1954) to Beyoncé's first megahit, "Crazy in Love” (2003). Bob Stanley—himself a musician, music critic, and fan—teases out the connections and tensions that animated the pop charts for decades, and ranges across the birth of rock, soul, R&B, punk, hip hop, indie, house, techno, and more. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is a vital guide to the rich soundtrack of the second half of the twentieth century and a book as much fun to argue with as to quote.
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Bob Stanley has worked as a music journalist, DJ, and record-label owner, and is the cofounder and keyboard player for the band Saint Etienne. He lives in London.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part One
- 1 Flip, Flop, and Fly: Bill Haley and Jump Blues
- 2 A Mess of Blues: Elvis Presley
- 3 Put Your Cat Clothes On: Sun Records and Rockabilly
- 4 Teenage Wildlife: Rock 'n' Roll
- 5 Rock with the Cavemen: Skiffle and British Rock 'n' Roll
- 6 Whispering Bells: Doo Wop
- 7 1960: It Will Stand
- 8 Walk with Me in Paradise Garden: Phil Spector and Joe Meek
- 9 The Trouble with Boys: The Brill Building and Girl Groups
- Part Two
- 10 Act Naturally: The Beatles
- 11 Needles and Pins: The Beat Boom
- 12 Who's Driving Your Plane? The Rolling Stones
- 13 This Is My Prayer: The Birth of Soul
- 14 The Rake's Progress: Bob Dylan
- 15 America Strikes Back: The Byrds and Folk Rock
- 16 Up the Ladder to the Roof: Tamla Motown
- 17 1966: The London Look
- 18 Endless Summer: The Beach Boys
- 19 The Golden Road: San Francisco and Psychedelia
- 20 Pop Gets Sophisticated: Soft Rock
- 21 Crying in the Streets: Deep Soul
- 22 I Can't Sing, I Ain't Pretty, and My Legs are Thin: Hard Rock
- 23 Bubblegum is the Naked Truth: The Monkees
- Part Three
- 24 1970: Everything's Gone Gray
- 25 Freddie's Dead: Electrified Soul
- 26 State of Independence: Jamaica
- 27 It Came from the Suburbs: Glam
- 28 The Sound of Philadelphia: Soft Soul
- 29 Progressive Rock (and Simpler Pleasures)
- 30 Young Love: Weenyboppers and Boy Bands
- 31 See that Girl: Abba
- 32 Beyond the Blue Horizon: Country and Western
- 33 Before and After the Gold Rush: Laurel Canyon
- 34 1975: Storm Warning
- Part Four
- 35 Courage, Audacity and Revolt: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, and Punk Rock
- 36 Cranked Up Really High: Punk Rock
- 37 Pleasantly Antagonistic: New Wave
- 38 Supernature: Disco
- 39 Islands in the Stream: The Bee Gees
- 40 Routine is the Enemy of Music: Post-punk
- 41 A Shark in Jet's Clothing: America after Punk
- 42 This is Tomorrow: Kraftwerk and Electropop
- 43 Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: Early Rap
- 44 Here Comes that Feeling: New Pop
- 45 American Rock (Ooh Yeah)
- 46 Just a King in Mirrors: Michael Jackson
- 47 Highs in the Mid-Eighties: Prince and Madonna
- 48 Some Kind of Monster: Metal
- 49 Poised over the Pause Button: The Smiths, REM, and the Birth of Indie
- 50 1985: What the Fuck is Going On?
- 51 We were Never Being Boring: Pet Shop Boys and New Order
- Part Five
- 52 Chicago and Detroit: House and Techno
- 53 Smiley Culture: Acid House and Manchester
- 54 1991: Bassline Changed My Life
- 55 All Eyez on Me: Hip Hop
- 56 This is How You Disappear: Bristol, Shoegazing, and a New Psychedelia
- 57 As a Defense, I'm Neutered and Spayed: Grunge
- 58 Ever Decreasing Circles: Blur, Suede, and Britpop
- 59 A Vision of Love: R&B
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
