Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
Language: English
Published by Aurum Press Ltd, London, 2011
- Softcover
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Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United KingdomGodley Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Crease down centre of front cover, none to rear or to spine. Otherwise appears in mint condition. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 546pp. The intertwined story of the music label Factory Records in Manchester, including the Hacienda, Joy Division and the founder of the label, Tony Wilson. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8 x 6 inches.
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- Title
- Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
- Author
- James Nice
- Publisher
- Aurum Press Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1845136349
- ISBN 13
- 9781845136345
- Seller catalogs
- Biography - Performing Arts, Performing Arts - Music
In 1978, a ‘ Factory for Sale’ sign gave Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson a name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn’ t have known it at the time, this was the launch of one of the most significant musical and cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club’ s electrifying live scene soon translated to vinyl, and Factory Records went on to become the most innovative and celebrated record label of the next thirty years.
Always breaking new musical ground, Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division, whose Unknown Pleasures was the label’ s first album release, New Order, Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur, Tony Wilson, Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness, such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub, which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982.
Shadowplayers is the most complete, authoritative and thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists and entrepreneurs saw off bankers, journalists and gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times. Based on both archive and contemporary sources, the book tells the full story of Factory’ s heroic struggles, its complex web of inventive, idiosyncratic and tragic personalities, and ultimately, the acclaimed and much-loved music it produced.
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