Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)

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Ordinary details: 1950s kids thrilling to the twang of an arrow hitting an oak tree on The Adventures of Robin Hood, blissfully unaware the sound was George Martin flexing a ruler. Jacqueline du Pré, en usedvanlig begavet cellist som døde av multippel sklerose i en alder av 42 år. Ken went on to work with some of the biggest names in rock including The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Donovan and David . And looking at the history of Abbey Road – the history of recorded performance – it wasn’t just the public who started out confused. Indeed, when Sir Edward Elgar officially opened the ground-breaking Abbey Road studio in November 1931, he conducted Land of Hope and Glory on stage with his orchestra ‘apparently ready to give a performance rather than make a recording’.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) and Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) engineered and produced in its environs, EMI Studios had already cemented itself as a historical landmark of sorts. The artwork for the book is beautiful, with an iconic white Abbey Road Studios wall autographed by some of the famous names who have recorded there. On July 1st I'll be talking to James Holland about Abbey Road, the Beatles and more at the Chalke Valley History Festival. The hardback is white with a black zebra crossing embossed on both front and back, and the spine has the title embossed onto a little road sign, too.He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music program The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. For me, the main and most interesting point to taker from the narrative is that the music that we have listened to and loved was the product of a combination of the artists themselves who supplied the vision of what they wanted to achieve, and the technicians and producers, without whom the sounds that we hear could not have been made reality. It's very recognisable, but doesn't lend itself so well to fact-based subjects, and as a result this doesn't come across as a definitive history of the famous studios.

Highly recommended for anybody with an interest in the musical recording process and indeed anybody who has had the need to 'cross that bloody road with three mates'.

He lives in London, dividing his time between writing for a variety of newspaper and magazines, speaking at events, broadcasting work, podcasting at www. I welcomed these sidebars and found it only appropriate to "hear" the inside story of Abbey Road in Hepworth's very British voice. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry. Overall, as easily readable and entertaining as always, but perhaps feeling a little more disposable than expected. David Hepworth will be speaking about the history of Abbey Road recording studio as part of Chipping Campden Literature Festival on May 26 at Cidermill Theatre: campdenmayfestivals.

Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studios is a book which fills a gap in the market. Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. Throughout her account of this kooky, messed-up, enviable, and often thrilling life, her humility (her sons "are true miracles, considering the gene pool") never fails her. Early attempts at this new-found technique provoked bafflement, sometimes downright hostility, from performers, too.Whereas a recording is the capturing of a performance of that particular song by these particular musicians at this particular point in time. And – as David Hepworth himself snuffles – a vignette featuring the cold virus: John Lennon’s rendition of Twist And Shout on Please Please Me – which sounds (as David wonderfully describes it) ‘like it was the last he would ever sing’ – achieved thanks to Lennon having flu.

He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985.With " Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio," David Hepworth affords readers a stirring history of the much-heralded studio and the magic that has transpired within its hallowed walls.