In Perfect Harmony (eBook)

Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain

Will Hodgkinson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
600 Seiten
Blink Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78870-562-2 (ISBN)

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A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceIn 1970, pop was in trouble. The Beatles were no more. Pink Floyd devoted themselves to progressive epics. Led Zeppelin dismissed anything beyond their 'musical statements' as childish frippery. Thankfully, help was on its way.This comprehensive chronicle by music historian Will Hodgkinson explores how an unlikely mix of backroom songwriters, revitalised rockers, actors, producers, teen stars and children turned pop into the dominant sound and vision of the 1970s.While bands such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were ruling the albums chart, the singles chart was swinging along to the tune of million-selling blockbusters by the likes of Brotherhood of Man, the Sweet and the Wombles. These were the songs you heard on Radio 1, during Saturday-night TV, at youth clubs, down the pub and even emanating from your parents' record player...It was never cool, but it was the real soundtrack of the decade.Against a rainy, smog-filled backdrop of three-day weeks, national strikes, IRA bombings and the Winter of Discontent, this unrelenting stream of novelty songs, sentimental ballads, glam-rock stomps and blatant rip-offs offered escape, uplift, romance and the promise of eternal childhood - all released with one goal in mind: a smash hit.In Perfect Harmony takes the reader on a journey through the most colour-saturated era in music, examining the core themes and camp spectacle of '70s singalong pop, as well as its reverberations through British culture since. This is the pioneering social history of a musical revolution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1970s • 1970s Britain • 20th Century Britain History • 70s • 70s Pop • Abba • abba gold • Abba Voyage • Abba Voyage Gold Bjorn Ulvaeus Benny Anderson The Osmonds Donny Osmond Partridge Family • Abigail’s Party • Althea and Donna • Althea and Donna John Lennon Paul McCartney Lieutenant Pigeon Hot Butter Moog Pickettwitch Dawn • Bay City Rollers • Benny Anderson • Bjorn Ulvaeus • Blue Mink • Boney M. • Brickie Glam: Slade • Brickie Glam: Slade David Bowie Look In Cheggers Plays Pop Clive Dunn St Winifred’s School Choir • British pop • brotherhood of man • Cheggers Plays Pop • Chicory Tip • Christmas • Clive Dunn • Coca Cola • Costa del Sol • Costa Del Sol Vintage Retro Guilty Pleasures Three Degrees Paul Williams Real Thing New Seekers • Cultural Studies Music • Darts • Dave Hill • David Bowie • David Cassidy • David Essex • David Essex Cassidy Gilbert O’Sullivan Disco Reggae Abigail’s Party Donna Summer Chicory Tip • Dawn • Disco • Donna Summer • Donny Osmond • Eurovision Song Contest • Gilbert O’Sullivan • Glam Rock • Guilty Pleasures • Hot Butter • IRA • John Lennon • Jonathan King • Lieutenant Pigeon • Look In • Marc Bolan • Mike Batt • mobile disco • Moog • mud • Mud Jonathan King Blue Mink Boney M. Eurovision Song Contest Suzi Quatro Top of the Pops • music • Music Books • Music Business • Music History & Criticism • New Seekers • Noddy Holder • Noddy Holder Dave Hill Christmas Strikes IRA Three-Day Week Ska Rock and Roll Revival Tartan • Novelty Songs • one-hit wonders • package holidays • Pan’s People • Pan’s People Mike Batt Bay City Rollers Radio Singles Chart 1970s Britain British Package Holidays • Partridge Family • Paul McCartney • Paul Williams • Pickettwitch • Platform Boots • Platform Boots Darts Showaddywaddy: Working Men’s Clubs Youth Clubs Mobile Disco Racism • Pop culture • popular music • Racism • Radio • real thing • Reggae • Retro • Rock & Pop Musician Biographies • Rock and Roll • Rock and Roll Revival • Seventies • Showaddywaddy: Working Men’s Clubs • singalong • Singalong Pop • Singles Chart • Ska • Social & Cultural History • Strikes • St Winifred’s School Choir • Super • Super Pop • Suzi Quatro • Tartan • The Osmonds • The Sweet • The Sweet Wombles One-Hit Wonders Novelty Songs Glam Rock Marc Bolan T-Rex Coca Cola • The Wombles • three-day week • Three Degrees • Top of the Pops • T-Rex • uk history • Vintage • Winter of Discontent • youth clubs
• ISBN-10: 1-78870-562-9 / 1788705629
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78870-562-2 / 9781788705622