[Download PDF/Epub] This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century By Steven Hyden

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By : Steven Hyden

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A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020"In this brilliant book,?Steven Hyden?goes deep into why Kid A matters?it's the fascinating saga of how the music turned into the symbol of a new cultural era." ? Rolling StoneTHE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed