Sixties British rock and pop changed music history. While American
popular music dominated the record industry in the late fifties and
early sixties, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who,
and numerous other groups soon invaded the world at large and put
Britain at the center of the modern musical map. Please Please Me
offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording
industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on
personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant
data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social
context of postwar Britain. Author Gordon Thompson weaves issues of
class, age, professional status, gender, and ethnicity into his
narrative, beginning with the rise of British beat groups and the
emergence of teenagers as consumers in postwar Britain, and moving
into the competition between performers and the recording industry
for control over the music. He interviews session musicians who
recorded anonymously with the Beatles, Hermans Hermits, and the
Kinks, professional musicians who toured with British bands
promoting records or providing dance music, songwriters, music
directors, and producers and engineers who worked with the
best-known performers of the era. The consequences of World War Two
for pop music in the late fifties and early sixties form the
backdrop for discussion of recording equipment, musical
instruments, and new jet-age transportation, all contributors to
the rise of British pop-music alongside the personalities that more
famously made entertainment news. And these famous personalities
traverse the pages of Please Please Me as well: performing
songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger
and Richards, Ray Davies, and Pete Townshend took center stage
while the production teams and session musicians created the art of
recording behind the doors of Londons studios. Drawing his
interpretation of the processes at work during this musical
revolution into a wider context, Thompson unravels the musical
change and innovation of the time with an eye on understanding what
traces individuals leave in the musical and recording process.
Opening up important new historical and musical understandings in a
repertoire that is at the core of rock music's history, Please
Please Me will appeal to all students, scholars, and fans of
popular music.
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