Description: Further DetailsTitle: Elton John's Blue MovesCondition: NewEAN: 9781501355424ISBN: 9781501355424Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/14/2020Item Height: 165mmItem Length: 121mmAuthor: Matthew RestallLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1501355422Description: By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down.Was the commercially disappointing and poorly reviewed double album to blame? Can one album shoot down a star? No, argues Matthew Restall; Blue Moves is a four-sided masterpiece, as fantastic as Captain Fantastic, as colorful as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a showcase for the three elements--piano-playing troubadour, full orchestra, rock band--with which Elton John and his collaborators redirected the evolution of popular music. Instead, both album and career were derailed by a perfect storm of circumstances: Elton’s decisions to stop touring and start his own label; the turbulent shiftings of popular culture in the punk era; the minefield of attitudes toward celebrity and sexuality. The closer we get to Blue Moves, the better we understand the world into which it was born--and vice versa. Might that be true of all albums?Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Weight: 154gBook Series: 33 1/3Genre: Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Elton John's Blue Moves
Title: Elton John's Blue Moves
EAN: 9781501355424
ISBN: 9781501355424
Release Date: 05/14/2020
Release Year: 2020
ISBN-10: 1501355422
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: 33 1/3
Book Title: Elton John's Blue Moves
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Blues, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Rock, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 5.4 Oz
Item Length: 6.6 in
Author: Matthew Restall
Book Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Item Width: 4.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
