Walking Through Sounds 2.0. 33 Stories About Popular Music: From The Beatles to Billie Eilish

In the continuation of Walking Through Sounds, there are 33 stories about popular music — the number of revolutions that a long-playing record makes per minute. These are stories about super hits that influenced the industry and changed the course of modern culture, as well as about underrated artists finally occupying their well-deserved place on the pages of this book alongside their more successful colleagues. Behind the albums, songs, guitar solos, and electronic beats stand the fates of their authors, which in turn form a colorful and captivating portrait of time — sixty years of human cultural history. Each chapter is based on one of the episodes of the program Walking Through Sounds, which aired weekly for six years on the Silver Rain radio station. The Beatles, Nick Drake, Magma, Big Star, Donna Summer, The Human League, Pulp, Belle & Sebastian, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Twenty One Pilots, Billie Eilish, and others — this is the company that journalist and music critic Lev Gankin takes with him to understand how pop music has developed over the past fifty years and why.