A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives Audiobook (Free)

Random Home presents the audiobook edition of A Fabulous Creation, written and go through by David Hepworth.

The era from the LP began in 1967, with ‘Sgt Pepper’; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of tunes, they Produced An Record. Henceforth, everyone else wished to Make An Recording.

The end came only fifteen years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. By then the Walkman had taken music from the home and into the streets as well as the record business had begun in regards to a Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives seeking to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to make big money. Nobody would play music or pay attention to it in quite the same manner ever again.

It was a short but transformative period. Musicians became ‘performers’ and we, the people, patrons of the arts. The LP itself had been a mark of style, a measure of wealth, an instrument of education, a poster stating stuff you dare not really say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex, and, for many, the solitary most desirable object in their lives.

This is actually the story of that time; it requires us from recording studios where musicians were doing things that had never been carried out before to the sparsely equipped flats where their efforts would be received like visitations from a higher power. This is the story of how LPs kept our lives.