Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: The Velvet Glove: The Art of Production
2: A Question of Balance: Engineering Art
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5: Red-Light Fever: Musicians
6: Please Please Me
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Discography
Bibliography
Gordon Thompson is Professor of Music at Skidmore College.
"An insiders peek at the British pop music recording industry from
1956 to 1968As history books go, this one is more engaging than
most. The selected discography is a nice addition, and a song index
(in addition to a general book index) makes it easy to find
passages related to your favorite tunes."--Goldmine
"Please Please Me defines British pop in ways sparklingly accurate
and brilliantly insightful. The author gets it all in order with
quality writing and an endless quantity of resource material.
Thompson does more for this music than anyone has yet to achieve.
His study is the best of history and theory combined. In fact, no
other book on this subject comes close."-Martin J. Rosenblum
"Gordon Thompson's Please Please Me is authoritative,
comprehensive, and thoroughly engaging. With lots of information
gathered from interviews with the creators themselves and not
available elsewhere, Thompson contextualizes his topic with just
the right amount of historical and cultural history. Please Please
Me will be valuable for all those interested in twentieth-century
popular music, music technology, and the British
Invasion."--Walter
Everett, University of Michigan
"Where other chroniclers have dug deep into the popular music world
of the 1960s, Gordon Thompson has tunneled his way to the center of
the earth. His observations coupled with his ability to identify
with the artists, musicians, musical directors and producers of
that era make for an enlightening, entertaining and educational
book. Thompson has caught the camaraderie, excitement, stress,
along with the expertise and experimentation that made the '60s a
very
special time."--Vic Flick, Guitarist www.vicflick.com
"The stories, the personalities, the attitudes, the secrets, the
blunders are all here, exactly as they happened. Not only has the
author elevated the history of '60s British Pop to an unprecedented
level of excellence, but I have been reminded of just how bloody
lucky we were to be part of it."--Mitch Murray, Hit Songwriter
"Gordon Thompson's Please Please Me is authoritative,
comprehensive, and thoroughly engaging. With lots of information
gathered from interviews with the creators themselves and not
available elsewhere, Thompson contextualizes his topic with just
the right amount of historical and cultural history. Please Please
Me will be valuable for all those interested in twentieth-century
popular music, music technology, and the British
Invasion."--Walter
Everett, University of Michigan
"Where other chroniclers have dug deep into the popular music world
of the 1960s, Gordon Thompson has tunneled his way to the center of
the earth. His observations coupled with his ability to identify
with the artists, musicians, musical directors and producers of
that era make for an enlightening, entertaining and educational
book. Thompson has caught the camaraderie, excitement, stress,
along with the expertise and experimentation that made the '60s a
very
special time."--Vic Flick, Guitarist www.vicflick.com
"Please, Please, Please Me is interesting if not wildly
enjoyable."--Shindig-Magazine
"This is a remarkable book. Gordon Thompson's book stands alone in
getting into the guts of the 1960s UK music scene."-Joe Moretti
"The stories, the personalities, the attitudes, the secrets, the
blunders are all here, exactly as they happened. Not only has the
author elevated the history of '60s British Pop to an unprecedented
level of excellence, but I have been reminded of just how bloody
lucky we were to be part of it."--Mitch Murray, Hit Songwriter
"Please Please Me is a well-informed, thoughtful commentary on the
cultural factors and human relationships responsible for the
worldwide prominence of British rock; I would recommend it to all
scholars and students of the repertoire."--Christopher Doll,
Journal of Popular Music Studies
"His carefully crafted study, grounded in a wide range of
interviews..., provides a marvelously elegant construction of the
process by which music was made, packaged, and sold."--Richard
Coopey, Business History Review
"This work is highly original and adds significantly to our
knowledge of the 1960s." --Dave Laing, Equinox Online
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