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

Product Information

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. You will come away dazzled by all of the dots Hepworth connects behind the scenes here, in what in many ways is the soundtrack of our lives.

They wanted her to come in on Saturday, but she couldn’t because she was going to see Chuck Berry in Hammersmith. All types of music are covered as fitting for the studio, but its hard to avoid the dominance of two giant records that were recorded here: The Beatle’s Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. It's no great leap to imagine that as long as human beings love music, they'll be making that fabled pilgrimage, walking in the footsteps of giants for centuries to come. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry.

Of course, I especially liked reading about The Beatles and how they recorded at the studios, and as I read, I found myself yearning to visit the studios. I enjoyed it because I have lived through the many changes in how music is recorded and listened to. I’m not the world’s biggest Roy Harper fan; but I just think, not many artists get the opportunity in their life to make a great record. He lives in London, dividing his time between writing for a variety of newspaper and magazines, speaking at events, broadcasting work, podcasting at www.

This joyful read offers a time-traveling experience, shedding light on the rapid evolution of our listening habits, the enduring impact of certain bands, and the pivotal role played by a studio that housed it all. Apart from the odd time the writing strayed into pretentious music journo mode (especially towards the end), everything else about this was great and enjoyed it a lot.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. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents.

He is the radio columnist for the Saturday Guardian and a regular media correspondent for the newspaper. Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers. 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'.On September 10th I'll be talking to Mark Ellen about Abbey Road, the Beatles and more at the Chiswick Book Festival. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studios is a book which fills a gap in the market. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. David Hepworth has developed a very distinctive style of writing, honed over years of writing music reviews and articles.