The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Eighties Music - Colin Larkin
Based on the encyclopedia of Popular Music
KORTE INHOUD
The Virgin Encyclopedia of EIghties Music is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most fragmented and frequently most maligned decade in the history of popular music.
The quality of the information is garanteed, as this book has been created from de database of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992 and accepted as the most authoritative source of reference in the field.
Here are nearly 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels - everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the New Romantics who brought colour and image to fill the gap left by punk and the new wave, to the stadium acts who provided a launch pad for Live Aid, to the myriad variations of house and techno spawned in the latter half of the Eighties.
As well as the giants of the period, this encyclopedia has the range and depth to include the artists who flourished briefly but will f...
The quality of the information is garanteed, as this book has been created from de database of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992 and accepted as the most authoritative source of reference in the field.
Here are nearly 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels - everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the New Romantics who brought colour and image to fill the gap left by punk and the new wave, to the stadium acts who provided a launch pad for Live Aid, to the myriad variations of house and techno spawned in the latter half of the Eighties.
As well as the giants of the period, this encyclopedia has the range and depth to include the artists who flourished briefly but will f...
