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

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Whilst it took me nearly a month to get through anyway - mainly because I don't get the time to devote to my reading - it was not because I did not want to read it, but because I was always busy with something else. Those who passed through our doors include the unstoppable ‘Barbie’ up for Best Picture and Best Original Song with ‘I’m Just Ken’, the inspiring ‘Society Of The Snow’ up for Best International Feature Film and the mind-blowing ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ up for Best Animated . David Hepworth was in Abbey Road 12 months ago when Noel Gallagher was putting strings on his new record.

In 1976, studio head Ken Townsend boldly recast the facilities as Abbey Road Studios in keeping both with the building's famous address and the album — and its legend-making cover photo — that punctuated the Beatles' spectacular career.As an Anglophile, audiophile and unapologetic Beatles nerd, there was slim chance David Hepworth's book would be anything less than a hit with me - and it certainly delivered. 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.

These studios still exist and this book covers all the great bands and albums made there but also deals with the challenges along the way and the studios reinvention in the 21st century to embrace the modern Digital age and todays music. It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged - nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself.

It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds, and unforgettable tunes were forged. Opened by EMI in 1931, its initial showpiece was Studio One, designed to accommodate symphony orchestras. What’s more, he owns – so his blurb tells us – more records than he’ll ever get round to listening to (some made at Abbey Road). Kenneth Womack is the author of a two-volume biography of the life and work of Beatles producer George Martin and the host of " Everything Fab Four," a podcast about the Beatles distributed by Salon. It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged – nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself.

Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio by David Hepworth | 9781529177251.You also find that you get a potted history of recorded music itself - the progress of which was swift during the 20th century and revolutionized the way we listened to and purchased music, as well as the singers, musicians and studio technicians who made it all possible. And looking at the history of Abbey Road – the history of recorded performance – it wasn’t just the public who started out confused. The great George Martin of Parlophone, currently riding high with Bernard Cribbins of The Hole in the Ground comedic record-fame.

I don't have a huge interest in which exact machine was used for what sound in what year on whatever record.The poetry (more accurately described as italicized notes-to-self with line breaks) remains strewn liberally through the pages, often summarizing the takeaway or the emotional impact of the events described: "I was / and still am / an exceptionally / easy target. Hepworth uses sound recording and one legendary studio as a palette to capture this arc of systemic change, how it impacts everyone along the chain in different ways, and explored all of its attendant pluses and minuses, depending on your perspective. David Hepworth has developed a very distinctive style of writing, honed over years of writing music reviews and articles. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.