Bob Stanley
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars--and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? This new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end...