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Summary:

From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood's most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world's most defining labels for the past 75 years. To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol's extensive archives, we follow the label's evolution and the making of some of the greatest music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz, the photographic and musical history includes the label's most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the spotlight.

Contributors:

Golden, Reuel , editor

Sappenfield, Jess , designer

Beck , writer of foreword

Hoskyns, Barney , author

Unterberger, Richie, 1962- , author

Hess, Alan, 1952- , author

Wilentz, Sean , author

Languages:

English
French
German

Language Notes:

Texts in English, French, and German.

Alternate Titles:

German title from supplement: 75 Jahre Capitol Records
French title from supplement: 75 années de Capitol Records

Subjects:

Capitol Records, Inc. — History

Capitol Records, Inc. — Pictorial works

Sound recording industry — United States — History

Musicians — Portraits

Capitol Records, Inc.

Sound recording industry

Musicians

United States

Genres:

History

Pictorial works

General Notes:

Includes index.
English/German/French set edition includes hardcover English edition, plus supplement with translations.
Contents of supplement: Translations of English texts in French and German.

Physical Description:

489 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 34 cm + 1 supplement (43 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm)

Physical Characteristics:

34 cm

Call Numbers:

ML3792.C46 S48 2016

ISBNs:

9783836550284 (English edition, hardcover)
3836550288 (English edition, hardcover)
9783836564472 (English/German/French edition, set)
3836564475 (English/German/French edition, set)

OCLC Numbers:

967148766