DARE: How Bowie & Kraftwerk Inspired The Death of Rock’n’Roll and Invented Modern Pop Music by David Laurie
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Overview: What is it about, then…?
It’s about Synthpop, more or less, and how David Bowie, Kraftwerk and the advent of cheap synths rendered Rock’n’Roll redundant, forever changed what it meant to be “in a band” and invented Modern Pop Music along the way.
It focuses on 1979-1982 and offers a perceptive and entertaining look at a Pop Revolution that played out on Top Of The Pops, rather than deep underground – and why the "plastic music" of the early Eighties is so very durable and influential.
Go on then, I’m listening….
DARE looks back to the dizzying excitement of Pop Music from 1979-1982. Punk and Disco had punctured the Seventies’ grey flab but the Top Twenty had stayed drab for the most part.
Seemingly overnight, microchips were everywhere: in the home, bleeping and flashing on your wrist and powering the synthesizers and computers that changed everything in Pop. Bold and bright Pop ideas leapfrogged musical ability and even the most austere bands started cracking smiles. Joy Division became New Order, The Clash took on hip hop, The Specials gave birth to Fun Boy Three, Neil Young made a Kraftwerk record and as for Adam’s Ants…
The Top Twenty filled up with more and more weird and wonderful singles, week after week. Each new Smash Hits and Top Of The Pops was an unmissable feast for the eyes and ears.
Genre: Non Fiction=> Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences
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