The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries

Bill Brewster · Frank Broughton

4/2011 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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From the co-authors of the classic Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: A fascinating oral history of record spinning told by the groundbreaking DJs themselves.
 
Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. The Record Players is the fun and revealing result—a collection of firsthand accounts from the obsessives, the playboys, and the eccentrics that dominated the music scene and contributed to the evolution of DJ culture.
 
In the sixties, radio tastemakers brought their sound to the masses, while early trendsetters birthed the role of the club DJ at temples of hip like the Peppermint Lounge. By the seventies, DJs were changing the course of popular music; and in the eighties, young innovators wore out their cross-faders developing techniques that turned their craft into its own form of music.
 
With discographies, favorite songs, and amazing photos of all the DJs as young firebrands, The Record Players offers an unparalleled music education: from records to synthesizers, from disco to techno, and from influential cliques to arenas packed with thousands of dancing fans.

O autorovi

Bill Brewster has been editor of Mixmag’s Update USA. His writing appears regularly in Mixmag, the Face, Time Out, the Big Issue, and the Guardian. He currently lives in London.
 
Frank Broughton has been deputy editor of Mixmag’s Update USA and iD, and also writes from Details, Rolling Stone, the Face, NME, Hip Hop Connection, and Time Out New York, where he was founding clubs editor. He also lives in London.
 
Brewster and Broughton are also co-creators of the popular website, DJHistory.com.