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From
sock hops and leather jackets, to free love and new drugs, from the We Generation to the
Me Generation, hit music has provided the soundtrack. Songs make us laugh, cry, think, love, get
angry, get sexy, and get funky. But how does a song become more than words and music to
represent or influence the voice of a generation? How directed are the choices that music
producers make?
Inside the Hits dissects more than
sixty of the most powerful and memorable hit songs since the birth of rock and roll to
reveal the roots of their success. |
| Author Wayne Wadhams opens
up songs like a surgeon, exposing each one as a living, breathing organism—full of
guts, heart, and hormones. He
examines the key ingredients that made the songs work then and now, including: melody,
lyrics, performance, production, artist image, promotion, and market timing.
Get the inside scoop from interviews with the
artists, composers, producers, and engineers behind the hits.
- What really stopped Mick Jagger from getting Satisfaction?
- How did a secretary who was mistaken for a prostitute give Donna Summer her new sound?
Find all the answers, Inside
the Hits.
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