Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor. Ordinary details: 1950s kids thrilling to the twang of an arrow hitting an oak tree on The Adventures of Robin Hood, blissfully unaware the sound was George Martin flexing a ruler.

uk will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing.My only minor complaint was that was very little context provided as to what other studios where doing, particularly in the 30s and 40s. I love how Rock ‘N’ Roll threw everyone for a loop, a genre where “accidents tended to be embraced, not erased. It zips along with lots of love and affection for the craft and creativity of making music in a studio. A classic example of this – and this is an act more identified with Abbey Road than just about anybody – is the Beatles.

In recent years, the place has changed hands and faced financial challenges, especially as digital technology has reduced the need for full-service studios. Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers. David Hepworth has developed a very distinctive style of writing, honed over years of writing music reviews and articles.Excellent and interesting history of Abbey Road and the recording of artists well before the Beatles in the 60s.

Seeing the white-coated engineers milling about the studios, the Prime Minister famously quipped that there were so many white coats in evidence that he thought he'd "ended up in a hospital. Apart from the odd time the writing strayed into pretentious music journo mode (especially towards the end), everything else about this was great and enjoyed it a lot. Hepworth uses sound recording and one legendary studio as a palette to capture this arc of systemic change, how it impacts everyone along the chain in different ways, and explored all of its attendant pluses and minuses, depending on your perspective. What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world?

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. They wanted her to come in on Saturday, but she couldn’t because she was going to see Chuck Berry in Hammersmith. Though the studio is, of course, synonymous with the legendary work of The Beatles and Pink Floyd, our history contains many lesser-known but equally special recordings from Paul Robeson, Fats Waller, The Hollies, Deep Purple, Cilla Black, Shirley Bassey, John Williams, Amy Winehouse, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Massive Attack, Muse, Travis, Oasis, Nile Rodgers, Brockhampton, Adele, Little Simz, Sam Smith and many more.