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A History of the World in Your Record Collection
‘… an instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the record business.’ – Danny Goldberg, bestselling author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Chess Records tested their acquisitions out on people waiting at a nearby bus stop: if the crowd were bopping, they had a hit.
Sub Pop rejection letters start with the harsh, yet funny, ‘Dear Loser’.
Atlantic Records signed Led Zeppelin on Dusty Springfield’s recommendation.
Labelled with Love is an odyssey through your record collection and the world beyond it, from the Jazz Age to punk, the civil rights movement to Thatcherism, the Beatles to Britpop, and Ella Fitzgerald to The Ramones. Long-time music obsessive Andy Bollen tracks popular music through the influential labels that have shaped the last eighty years, chronicling each company with the passion of a fan but the eye of a satirist. This is an informative and revealing look at the leading labels, bands and music that rocked our worlds and shaped our lives.
‘In Labelled with Love Andy Bollen provides a unique encyclopedic and insightful overview of the culture of record companies over the course of the last several decades. Carefully researched but flavored with a sophisticated artist-oriented perspective, Labelled with Love is an instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the record business.’ – Danny Goldberg, bestselling author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
23rd March, 2021 in Entertainment, Local & Family History
Garth Cartwright and Quintina Valero take us on a tour around London’s Record Shops. 1. HMV – the chain of record stores that once straddled the globe – started as a single shop at 363 Oxford Street, London. Opened in 1921 by parent company His Master’s Voice to sell the 78s and…
6th December, 2017 in Entertainment
Artist Tony Booth worked in Liverpool during the early 1960s, just around the corner from The Cavern Club and close to The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein’s office in Whitechapel. Booth’s work caught Epstein’s eye, and he would go on to produce posters, printed leaflets and a wide…
27th September, 2017 in Entertainment
A few minutes before 07:00am on Saturday 30 September 1967 and a 24-year old DJ named Tony was poised ready to place the needle onto the record Flowers in the Rain by The Move. That young DJ was Tony Blackburn, and this marked the arrival of BBC Radio 1. The government had recent…
10th August, 2017 in Entertainment
A tenement, a dirty streetWalked and worn by shoeless feet,Inside it’s long and so completeWatched by a shivering sun.Old eyes in a small child’s face,Watching as the shadows raceThrough walls and cracks that leave no traceAnd daylight’s brightness shuns (The Days of Pearly Spenc…
7th August, 2017 in Entertainment
We forget perhaps that we only use the phrase ‘all you need is love’ because John Lennon did. The song with this straightforward title was written for the Beatles by Lennon in 1967, as the ultimate anthem of the Summer of Love. It was premiered as part of ‘Our World’,…
31st May, 2017 in Entertainment, Society & Culture
On 1 June 1967, The Beatles released their psychedelic landmark eighth album – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Hailed as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time, the 13 tracks (which included songs such as ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’, ‘With a Little…
