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The Blurb On The Back:
Travel back to the 1980s …
… and discover an epic collection of remarkable facts, notable events and fascinating anecdotes from the decade’s diverse and inventive music scene.
The eighties was one of the most innovative periods in the history of pop music - and even forty years on remains one of the best loved, championed by radio, television, advertisements, theatre and films, with many of the key acts still performing and recording.
Into The Groove is a tale of pop and circumstance. It charts the global state of pop music month by month from January 1980 to December 1989, highlighting a wide variety of events and tracing the career paths of hundreds of noteworthy acts around the world, from Salt-N-Pepa to The Sugarcubes, Kate Bush to Kraftwerk, Run-DMC to INXS, and Neneh Cherry to Youssou N’Dour.
It celebrates genres of all kinds - the enduring and the faddish, the mainstream and the underground, post-punk and acid house, heavy rock and electronic, hip hop and teen pop. And it showcases many of the decade’s landmark recordings, figures and events, while also revealing plenty of intriguing lesser-known stories to create a wry and diverse musical tapestry.
The perfect gift for any music lover or eighties aficionado, Into The Groove is an endlessly entertaining homage to the 1980s.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Justin Lewis is a writer, researcher and editor with an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop music. This terrific book - perfect for music fans, connoisseurs and any Generation X-ers nostalgic for the 1980s - daintily treads the fine line of being informative and entertaining while also drawing out the connections and development of singers and bands and I particularly liked how, notwithstanding the UK/US focus, it also takes in African music artists.
… and discover an epic collection of remarkable facts, notable events and fascinating anecdotes from the decade’s diverse and inventive music scene.
The eighties was one of the most innovative periods in the history of pop music - and even forty years on remains one of the best loved, championed by radio, television, advertisements, theatre and films, with many of the key acts still performing and recording.
Into The Groove is a tale of pop and circumstance. It charts the global state of pop music month by month from January 1980 to December 1989, highlighting a wide variety of events and tracing the career paths of hundreds of noteworthy acts around the world, from Salt-N-Pepa to The Sugarcubes, Kate Bush to Kraftwerk, Run-DMC to INXS, and Neneh Cherry to Youssou N’Dour.
It celebrates genres of all kinds - the enduring and the faddish, the mainstream and the underground, post-punk and acid house, heavy rock and electronic, hip hop and teen pop. And it showcases many of the decade’s landmark recordings, figures and events, while also revealing plenty of intriguing lesser-known stories to create a wry and diverse musical tapestry.
The perfect gift for any music lover or eighties aficionado, Into The Groove is an endlessly entertaining homage to the 1980s.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Justin Lewis is a writer, researcher and editor with an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop music. This terrific book - perfect for music fans, connoisseurs and any Generation X-ers nostalgic for the 1980s - daintily treads the fine line of being informative and entertaining while also drawing out the connections and development of singers and bands and I particularly liked how, notwithstanding the UK/US focus, it also takes in African music artists.
