9/7/2023 0 Comments Ta ra ra boom d![]() How a formula for writing hit songs devised in the 1900s created over 50,000 of the best-known songs ever Across 28 anecdote-filled chapters, it will answer the questions about music you didn’t even know you wanted to ask. ![]() Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay will do that for you. We are all surrounded by music: it permeates our lives but we don’t often step back and think about how it’s made, how it works, how it functions as a business. I wished I’d had the courage to tackle the whole damned thing, the story of the music industry right from the beginning - from 1713 when the British parliament gave writers the right of ownership in what they wrote, till to today, when a worldwide industry worth 100 billion pounds and originally created by Britain and America has been reduced to just three major companies - Sony, Universal and Warner - under the control of Japanese, French and Russian owners. Although it was amazingly well received I was a bit disappointed – not with the reviews but with myself. In 2002 I wrote a history of the post-war British music industry called Black Vinyl White Powder.
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