A review by didactylos
Anatomy of a Song: The Inside Stories Behind 45 Iconic Hits by Marc Myers

3.0

I probably only read 40% of this. Many of the songs are ones I have no experience of, or have no emotional connection with and as there is an assumed knowledge of them, both the lyrics and the music, I was left cold on those. Where my knowledge and emotional connection coincided the material was very interesting in exposing the back story and the creative process that came to produce the end product. I was hampered by my total lack of musical knowledge, so much of the references to chord sequences, timing and other aspects just went over my head. An interesting other track to this is the manner in which emerging technologies were so much a part of producing the material and the demand for it.