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The Life of a Song Volume 2: The Stories Behind 50 More of the World's Best-loved Songs
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Life of a Song Volume 2: The Stories Behind 50 More of the World's Best-loved Songs
Contributors:
By (Author) Jan Dalley
By (author) David Cheal
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Imprint:
Chambers
Publication Date:
4th October 2018
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
782.42164
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
208
Dimensions:
Width 144mm, Height 222mm, Spine 23mm
Weight:
334g
Description
If The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" had been released under its original title, "Liverpool Sunset", would it have had the same impact Was "Greensleeves" really written by Henry VIII And how did The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" become globally adopted as a football chant
Like its bestselling predecessor, THE LIFE OF A SONG VOLUME 2 contains the stories of 50 songs, originally published in FT Weekend, that unearth each song's biography. These are also the stories of how songs took on new life following their release: how, for instance, "Wild Thing" helped launch the career of Jimi Hendrix in America. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music lovers and send you scurrying back to listen to the songs in all their beauty and mystery.