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I can't recommend it enough.' - CAITLIN MORAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the Twentieth Century.' - NEIL TENNANT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A perfect guidebook, filled with smart thinking and the kind of communicable enthusiasm that sends you rushing to the nearest streaming service, eager to hear what all the fuss was about.' - ALEXIS PETRIDIS, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho were the earliest record stars, and were they in any meaningful way 'pop stars'? Who were the likes of George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after the Second World War? The prequel to Bob Stanley's \u003ci\u003eYeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life - from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning and beyond - \u003ci\u003eLet's Do It\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for all music lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Stanley has provided something invaluable to the growing numbers who get their music via streaming services: a guide to pop's back pages, where artists mostly remembered in sepia tones are brought into vivid colour by the author's enthusiastic sense of discovery.' - BILLY BRAGG, \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Inspired.' - THE \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Remarkable.' - \u003ci\u003eCLASSIC ROCK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exhilarating.' - \u003ci\u003eCAUGHT BY THE RIVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Essential.' - \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A joyous read.' - \u003ci\u003eTHE ECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wholly entertaining.' - \u003ci\u003eMOJO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Enthralling.' - \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Great fun.' - \u003ci\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Colossal.' - \u003ci\u003eUNCUT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A joy.' - \u003ci\u003eRECORD COLLECTOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A triumph.' - \u003ci\u003eLOUD \u0026amp; QUIET\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383891509484,"sku":"9780571372201","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11398123482391.jpg?v=1773386689"},{"product_id":"excavate-by-bob-stanley-9780571358335","title":"Excavate!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mark E Smith provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock'n'roll.\" - Stewart Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? 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