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Big Star's Radio City
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Big Star's Radio City is ideal for music historians, vinyl enthusiasts, and fans of 1970s rock keen to uncover the stories behind a cult classic album and its lasting legacy in rock music.
Released when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album. In time, power pop would become an official rock genre and the influence of Radio City would be widely heard through artists like The Bangles and Teenage Fanclub. This book examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal.
Radio City (the book) is the improbable but true story of an ardent fan who gets close enough to Alex Chilton, the prime architect of the best power pop album ever made outside of Abbey Road Studios, to see what's on the other side of genius, fame, and expectations. This book examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal, including the unique confluence of circumstances that channeled Alex Chilton's creative energies toward the possibility of commercial success for perhaps the last time.
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Released when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean electrical jolt from the future.
Here, Bruce Eaton examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal—and through extensive interviews with all of those involved, gets to the heart of the cult of Big Star.
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Praised for its in-depth focus on the music rather than band drama, Eaton's book offers rare insights thanks to his personal connection with Big Star's Alex Chilton and interviews with key figures including Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. Critics highlight its appeal to record enthusiasts and fans of the album alike, appreciating the detailed exploration of the album’s influences and recording process.
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ISBN: 9780826428981
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 July 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 121.0mm
Height: 165.0mm
Weight: 144g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Bruce Eaton is a writer and jazz concert producer who lives near Buffalo, NY. He is the author of two successful business books. He played bass and guitar with Alex Chilton on dates in Buffalo, Toronto and New York, and set up Chilton's notoriously distastrous 1981 tour.
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