Original Rockers

Original Rockers
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9780571311811
ISBN-13 : 0571311814
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Book Synopsis Original Rockers by : Richard King

Download or read book Original Rockers written by Richard King and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s, with the march of the cd and record company disinterest oin the format, vinyl was looking like an anachronism. And with its demise came the gradual erosion of a once beautiful and unique landscape known as the independent record shop. Richard King, author of How Soon is Now, blends memoir and elegiac music writing on the likes of Captain Beefheart, CAN and Julian Cope, to create a book that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop. Chaotic, amateurish and extravagantly dysfunctional, this is a book full of rare personalities and rum stories. It is a book about landscape, place and the personal; the first piece of writing to treat the environment of the record shop as a natural resource with its own peculiar rhythms and anecdotal histories.


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