Music

"Covering the well-known and public areas of Burt Bacharach's life, as well as those aspects that have previously been hidden from the media, this book examines a celebrated career spanning 50 years. Covered in detail are Bacharach's previously undocumented early life; his work with lyricist Hal David; ...

Now quite retro advice on making a record. It used to be simple: you'd start a band, tour for 400 years, and if you were lucky a record company would spot you and pay for some studio time. Now you can make your own records on a budget of almost zero, and it's possible to record a song in the morning ...

There are few things more intimidating to the uninitiated than a recording studio. The terms in-line monitoring and impedance matching harbour panic and terror, the difference between balanced and unbalanced doesn't depend on level of sobriety, and the perils of sticky-shed syndrome are best left uncontemplated. ...

First published in 1998, Thompson charts the development of pop music from the time when guitar bands were the singularly dominant force to the advent of sampling and digital technology. The book features profiles of, and interviews with, leading lights such as Portishead, Tricky, Pulp, Blur, Goldie, the Aphex Twin among others.