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| Title | : | Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845136349 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
REALLY WELL WRITTEN, Informative, Entertaining, and Complete Amazon Customer I read a lot of pop music histories/memoirs/biographies, and most are obviously rush jobs thrown together by busy journalists who lack the time or inclination to edit their work, with crappy punctuation and obvious mistakes and misquotes. The Brits are often the worst offenders: I don't know why, among other things, they render American voices into British slang--or why they love run on sentences and comma splices. Also. Whither AE? Gerard O'Doherty Shadowplayers is a big book with a lot of words in it, but for me the key to the book - its central lacuna, if you will - is the fact that one of the Factory directors kept the faith and never spoke up. Fair play to the author for this definitive (and make no mistake, this be the book of the label) codex - but it was a company founded on mystique.And the man of mystery whose initials are A and E is the only one who reta
Shadowplayers is the most complete, authoritative and thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists and entrepreneurs saw off bankers, journalists and gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times. Based on both archive and contemporary sources, the book tells the full story of Factory's heroic struggles, its complex web of inventive, idiosyncratic and tragic personalities, and ultimately, the acclaimed and much-loved music it produced.. Always breaking new musical ground, Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division, whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first album release, New Order, Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur, Tony Wilson, Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness, such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub, which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982. Though they couldn't have known it at the time, this was the launch of one of the most significant musical and cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electr
He once worked for Factory Benelux and now administers much of the former Factory catalogue. . James Nice is an author, journalist and record-label owner. James Nice is the author of Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records, published by Aurum in 2010
James Nice is the author of Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records, published by Aurum in 2010. He once worked for Factory Benelux and now administers much of the former Factory catalogue. . About the Author James Nice is an author, journalist and record-label owner
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