{"product_id":"capitol-records-the-book","title":"Capitol Records","description":"\u003cp\u003eMusic to our ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood’s most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world’s most defining labels for the past 75+ years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol’s extensive archives, we follow the label’s evolution and the making of some of the greatest music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz, the photographic and musical history includes the label’s most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe author\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarney Hoskyns was born in London in 1959. He is the editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, the online library of pop writing and journalism, and a former staff writer at the New Musical Express, contributing editor to Vogue, and U.S. correspondent for MOJO. He is the author of the Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009) and Trampled Under Foot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecs \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 12\" W, 12\" H, 485 pages, 9.45 lbs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scout Design Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44255339315358,"sku":"Capitol Records. The Book","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0516\/5760\/5278\/files\/CapitolRecords.TheBook.01.jpg?v=1725076916","url":"https:\/\/www.scoutdesignstudio.com\/products\/capitol-records-the-book","provider":"Scout Design Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}