FABULOUS CREATION: How the LP Saved Our Lives

The era of the Album, Long Playing Record or LP began in 1967 with 'Sgt Pepper'. The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. 15 years later, the Walkman had already taken music out of the home and into the streets. The record business had begun trying to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to make big money, and nobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again. During that time the LP became a mark of sophistication, an instrument of education, a poster saying things you dare not say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex and for many the single most desirable object in their lives. This fabulous creation of a book takes us from recording studios where musicians were doing things they had never done before, to the sparsely furnished apartments where their efforts would be received like visitations from a higher power. In a love letter to the LP, this is a true enthusiast's account of the golden age of Vinyl, and Hepworth has more insider knowledge and knows more rock anecdotes than any man alive. 344 page paperback, eight pages of archive photos.