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anyone fascinated by popular song and will enhance your listening pleasure through awareness of what goes on in a
record. It explains all the important parts of songwriting, shows how these concepts work on the guitar and
illustrates them with references to recorded songs. There has probably never been a songwriting book with such a
wide range of examples. This is not for the musically narrow-minded. Within these pages, you will find singers and
bands from many styles of music from The Beatles to Nirvana, from Jimi Hendrix to Andy Williams, from Kate Bush
to Bruce Springsteen, from The Sex Pistols to Madonna. You can learn some aspect of songwriting from absolutely
everyone who has written a memorable song.
RIKKY ROOKSBY, OXFORD MARCH 2000

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MOTOWN BASSIST JAMES

JAMERSON (1936-1983).