The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

by Stuart Maconie

Book Overview

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.

Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes - changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again', a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the turmoil of war, and culminating with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091933803
• ISBN13: 9780091933807
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"