Where Have All The Good Times Gone?: The Rise And Fall Of The Record Industry

Where Have All The Good Times Gone?: The Rise And Fall Of The Record Industry by Louis Barfe


ISBN
9781843540656
Published
Released
28 / 04 / 2004
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Dimensions
165 x 241 x 39mm

Louis Barfe's elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. In what is the only book to consider the development of the music business on both sides of the Atlantic, Barfe's journey starts with the first ever record to be played on a tin-foil cylinder phonograph and arrives in the present to meet an industry in disarray.

He shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the departure of Edison from the phonograph business he created and the birth of EMI and CBS. In this years after the war, these companies, and the buccaneers, entrepreneurs, hucksters, impresarios and con-men who ran them, reaped stupendous commercial benefits with the arrival of Elvis Presley, who changed popular music (and the sales of popular music) almost overnight. After Presley came the Beatles, when the recording industry became global and record sales reached all time highs.
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