Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited - Softcover

Young, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904772471 ISBN 13: 9781904772477

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited tells the engrossing story of one of England’s most groundbreaking record labels. It is 30 years since the Rough Trade Shop first opened its doors in Notting Hill, London. Disco and soft-rock ruled the airwaves, The Clash had just signed to CBS and Geoff Travis set up the company with some friends as a communistic, DIY alternative to the increasingly stale mainstream. Over the ensuing years the Rough Trade Shop, Rough Trade Records and Rough Trade Distribution profoundly altered the landscape of modern music.

Rough Trade looks back on three fascinating decades of innovation, noise and change, taking in ups and downs, twists and turns and some of the best music ever committed to vinyl. The label released many of the most important records of the late 1970s and 80s by artists including: The Smiths, Scritti Politti, Mazzy Star, The Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, Arthur Russell and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Rough Trade profiles these artists and much more, as both the history of Rough Trade, and by proxy the story of British independent music over the last 30 years are engagingly chronicled. Visually stunning, Rough Trade is filled with archive images, interviews and previously unseen photographs and artefacts.

About this title

About the Author:

Writer Rob Young has played a key role in the development of internationally renowned music magazine The Wire and is currently its editor at large. He has contributed to publications including The Guardian, Uncut, Frieze, Jazz Times and Gramophone, as well as editing the acclaimed book Undercurrents: the Hidden Wiring of Modern Music.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904772471
• ISBN 13: 9781904772477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190