The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music - Hardcover

Larkin, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852279338 ISBN 13: 9781852279332

Publisher: Virgin Pub, 2002

Synopsis

Published for the first time in hard cover this invaluable handbook contains 1000 entries taken from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, offering an insight into the 60s -- the most analyzed yet least understood decade in the history of popular music. It includes every artist who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the Beatles-led invasion of America to the States' own pop aristocracy of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, from the rise of Motown to the arrival of psychedelia and the Summer of Love. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume. Covers the essential elements -- dates, career facts, discography, album ratings plus a sense of context for each artist.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Larkin has the best credentials for the compiler of a music reference book - he loves the music. In 1989 with twenty years' experience in music and publishing, and unhappy that popular music has not been deemed worthy of serious reference, he set about creating an equivalent to the Grove Dictionary Of Music. The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music from which this Encyclopedia is derived was first published in 1992, following three years of intensive research. The original database has trebled in size and now includes over 8 million words, the biggest of its kind in the world. Everyday of every year the database in updated and expanded.

Review:

'The meticulous accuracy here is infuriating' The Guardian; 'approaches the subject with genuine scholarly intent and never descends into pretension' The Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgin Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1852279338
• ISBN 13: 9781852279332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 576