Yeah Yeah Yeah - Softcover

Stanley, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571322409 ISBN 13: 9780571322404

Publisher: Faber & Faber Social, 2014

Synopsis

Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. It was more than just music - it could be your whole life.

Yeah Yeah Yeah covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip hop, indie, house and techno. It also includes the rise and fall of the home stereo, Top Of The Pops, Smash Hits and "this week's highest new entry". Yeah Yeah Yeah is the first book to look back at the entire era: what we gained, what we lost, and the foundations we laid for future generations.

There have been many books on pop but none have attempted to bring the whole story to life, from Billy Fury and Roxy Music to TLC and Britney via Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer. Audacious and addictive, Yeah Yeah Yeah is essential reading for all music lovers. It will remind you why you fell in love with pop music in the first place.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Stanley is a writer, musician, DJ, and film producer. Since founding influential pop group Saint Etienne, Bob has enjoyed a parallel career as a music journalist, contributing to publications such as the Times, Smash Hits, NME, the Guardian and the Face. A former artist-in-residence at the Southbank Centre, his films have been shown at the ICA and Royal Festival Hall, and he has curated several seasons for the Barbican.

Review:

“Rich with musical history lived, worked, and felt, with dozens more chapters and digressions that pay pop its due...Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is smart, funny, surprisingly deep for just how broad it is, but, most of all, for stars and songs great and small, it is full of love.”
- Joshua Joy Kamensky, Los Angeles Review of Books

“A landmark celebration, rumination and encapsulation of just about everything worth knowing―and arguing―about the pop landscape... A book for the ages.”
- Matt Damsker, USA Today

“[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it.”
- Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times

“An immensely entertaining pop-music survey course. [Stanley] is engagingly opinionated and often very, very funny... The assemblage of irresistible, bite-size histories of top-of-the-charts stars is joyful, smart, and addictive, just like the best pop songs, and a must for music fans everywhere.”
- Booklist, Starred review

“[Stanley] provides an intriguing view of the shifting ground of pop music.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Bob Stanley loves and finds surprising connections between a thousand kinds of pop. He makes me want to run to the nearest record store―and move in.”
- Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields

“Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ties together the disparate strands of pop’s shape-shifting history to create a vivid living document of the music of our lives.”
- Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever

“This book will be remembered and deserves to be.”
- Robert Christgau, Barnes & Noble Review

“Quixotic and kaleidoscopic, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! serves up erudite irreverence on every page. Like its sprawling subject, it invites everyone in for a listen.”
- Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

“Tells the story of American and British pop music almost as engagingly as the songs themselves.”
- Glenn Gamboa, Newsday

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber Social
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571322409
• ISBN 13: 9780571322404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800