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ISBN
9781501746857
Book Title
Solid State : the Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles
Item Length
8.7in
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Kenneth Womack
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, Music, History
Topic
History & Criticism, Recording & Reproduction, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Europe / Great Britain / General, Genres & Styles / Rock
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road , the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... Womack displays a detailed and insightful analysis that fans will hope he applies to the band's other albums. ? Publishers Weekly Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road . In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound, and included "Come Together," "Something," and "Here Comes the Sun," which all emerged as classics. Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes readers back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studio, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk. Womack focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside (for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other novelties. As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the instrumental skills, recording equipment, and artistic vision that the band and George Martin had developed since their early days in the same studio seven years earlier. A testament to the group's creativity and their producer's ingenuity, Solid State is required reading for all fans of the Beatles and the history of rock 'n' roll.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501746855
ISBN-13
9781501746857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038729812

Product Key Features

Book Title
Solid State : the Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles
Author
Kenneth Womack
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Recording & Reproduction, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Europe / Great Britain / General, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, Music, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
16 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ml421.B4w67 2019
Reviews
Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road , the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... Womack displays a detailed and insightful analysis that fans will hope he applies to the band's other albums., Womack humanizes and demystifies the mythic status of the album and of the four Beatles, but not by diminishing their achievements... Solid State is as fine a tribute to the Fabs as one could hope for in 2019, In the enjoyable deep dive Solid State, Kenneth Womack tells a detailed story of how the album came to be., Womack humanizes and demystifies the mythic status of the album and of the four Beatles, but not by diminishing their achievements... Solid State is as fine a tribute to the Fabs as one could hope for in 2019., One of the world's foremost Beatle scholars takes a fascinating tour through the band's final masterpiece. Kenneth Womack sheds light on the struggle and strife behind 'that magic feeling,' as four artists on the verge of splitting apart somehow came together to make some of their best-loved music. Solid State is a brilliant and essential trip., Womack has created an account of the Abbey Road sessions that is extremely well-researched and well-written. The timing of the publication is perfect, given the recent success of the 50th Anniversary Reissue of the album. It is well worth a read for die-hard fans, and even casual fans, who are interested in how this work of art was created., Kenneth Womack is an acknowledged Beatles archaeologist and archivist, and in this effort he undertakes a fine biography of this fine recording, taking it apart and reassembling it for us along the way...It is definitive indeed regarding the writing, recording, mixing and reception of Abbey Road., In the enjoyable deep dive Solid State , Kenneth Womack tells a detailed story of how the album came to be.
Table of Content
Foreword by Alan Parsons, by Alan Parsons Introduction: "Unmitigated Disaster" 1. EMI TG12345 Mk1 2. Stereophonic Sound 3. Tales of Men and Moog 4. "The Long One" 5. The Wind-Up Piano and Mrs. Mills 6. Virtuosi 7. Tittenhurst Park 8. Letting It Be 9. Solid State Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-011210
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by lda.us.avgsitzn1g
    May 25, 2020

    The "solid state" in the title refers to the new TG12345 control room mixer, and the new 8-track recorder, neither of which used tubes.

    This is a great review of not only the play by play of the studio engineering and recording of the Abbey Road album, but of the Beatles 1969 story as well.

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