Prince's Sign O' the Times (Thirty Three and a Third series)
Автор:Michaelangelo Matos Год: 2004 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 121 ISBN: 0826415474 Book Description"Thirty Three and a Third" is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives ? often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. What binds the series together, and what brings it to life,is that all of the authors ? musicians, broadcasters, scholars, and writers ? are huge fans of the album they have chosen. One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also illustrates beautifully how - if a record is great enough and lucky enough to hit you at...
