TY - BOOK AU - Myers, Marc TI - Anatomy of a song: the oral history of 45 iconic hits that changed rock, R&B and pop SN - 9781611855258 U1 - 782.4216 MYE-M PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Grove Press KW - Musicians KW - Popular music N1 - Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits transcend commercial value, touching a generation of listeners and altering the direction of music. In Anatomy of a Song, writer and music historian Marc Myers tells the stories behind fifty rock, pop, R&B, country and reggae hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them. Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, the Clash, Smokey Robinson, Grace Slick, Roger Waters, Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello and many other leading artists reveal the inspirations, struggles and techniques behind their influential works ER -