Scouse Pop - Paul Skillen

Scouse Pop - Paul Skillen

Foreword

Scouse Pop - Paul Skillen

Paul Du Noyer [+-]
Author and Music Journalist
Liverpool-born, Paul Du Noyer was a staff writer on the NME, became the editor of Q magazine and was the founding editor of MOJO. His books include a definitive history of his home town’s music, Liverpool: Wondrous Place, and the story of London’s popular music, In The City. His latest book is Conversations With McCartney, based on 30 years of encounters with the former Beatle.

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Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musical innovators. It looks at the reasons why art-pop bands such as OMD, China Crisis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Black and Frankie Goes to Hollywood managed to combine art and commerce with such spectacular success. The bands experienced their own ‘revolutions in the head,’ internal revolutions than eventually made many of them household names. The development of these suburban romantics from Liverpool represented a period of intensive creativity and musical romanticism that still resonates today. The spirit of (internal) revolution at the heart of these bands retains a strong fascination for those interested in artistic creation and popular culture. Given the bleak and uninspiring context within which the bands surfaced, how did these musicians achieve great success? Scouse Pop explores this question in detail, and examines the factors that facilitated the transformation of Liverpool teenage dreams into commercial and cultural impact. The music industry, radio and DJs, producers and engineers, the record-buying public and the bands themselves comprise the heart of this account.

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Du Noyer, Paul. Foreword. Scouse Pop. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. vii-viii Oct 2018. ISBN 9781781798935. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=37178. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.37178. Oct 2018

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