The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852279478 ISBN 13: 9781852279479

Publisher: Virgin Pub, 2002

Synopsis

From Joan Armatrading to Dionne Warwick, this is the ultimate resource on the most reappraised and revived decade in the history of popular music.

Packed with information on anyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, including bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels.

- Totally comprehensive: from A Tribe Called Quest to ZZ Top
- 1000 entries distilled from the fully updated, critically acclaimed Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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:

"This is musical history in the making" -- Rolling Stone

"This is the gospel, amen" -- The Glasgow Herald

"Very possibly the best rock reference ever" -- Q Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgin Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1852279478
• ISBN 13: 9781852279479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Larkin Colin