The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852279699 ISBN 13: 9781852279691

Publisher: Virgin Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Remember the 80’s? The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80's Music is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most fragmented and frequently maligned decade in the history of popular music. Here are 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels – everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the New Romantics who brought colour and image to fill the gap left by punk and the new wave, to the stadium acts who provided a launch pad for Live Aid, to the myriad variations of house and techno spawned in the latter half of the Eighties. As well as all the giants of the period the encyclopedia has the range and depth to include artists who flourished briefly and yet were quintessential to the decade. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume, distilled from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world’s leading source of reference on rock and pop history.

Informed, infatuating and invaluable.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Larkin has the best credentials for the compiler of a music reference book - he loves the music. In 1989 with twenty years' experience in music and publishing, and unhappy that popular music has not been deemed worthy of serious reference, he set about creating an equivalent to the Grove Dictionary Of Music. The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music from which this Encyclopedia is derived was first published in 1992, following three years of intensive research. The original database has trebled in size and now includes over 8 million works, the biggest of its kind in the world. Everyday of every year the database in updated and expanded.

Review:

'Very possibly the best rock reference ever' Q

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgin Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1852279699
• ISBN 13: 9781852279691
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Larkin Colin