1001 Songs

1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them
First edition
AuthorToby Creswell
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPopular music
Published
  • 2005 (Hardie Grant Books)
  • 2006 (Thunder's Mouth Press)
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages880[1]
ISBN978-1-74066-458-5
OCLC182730209
781.64

1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them[2][3][4] is a compendium of notable popular recordings collected by Australian rock journalist and critic Toby Creswell. The book was initially published in 2005 by Hardie Grant Books (Prahran, Victoria) and subsequently published in the United States by Thunder's Mouth Press (an imprint of the Avalon Publishing Group) in 2006. It is not a collection of songs, but of the stories behind what Creswell considers are the great songs of all time – from George Gershwin to Missy Elliott, from Bob Dylan to Alicia Keys, from Frank Sinatra to The Offspring, from Leonard Cohen to Pulp. The book also features over 400 photographs and album covers.

1001 Songs is used extensively by Brian Nankervis, creator, producer and adjudicator, of SBS program RocKwiz as a source of information for questions on the show.[5] In the foreword to the book, Creswell states the main research source was All Music Guide, which was consulted for release dates, songwriting credits and album listings, together with the website, Rock's Backpages.[5]

Creswell wrote his first article on rock & roll for Nation Review in 1972.[6] He subsequently wrote articles about all aspects of popular culture and music for RAM, Billboard, Roadrunner and a range of national and international magazines and newspapers.[7] He has worked for MTV and a variety of television programs as a writer and presenter. In 1985, he became editor of the Australian edition of Rolling Stone and two years later was in a partnership which took over the franchise.[7][8] He continued to edit Rolling Stone until September 1992.[8] He was a founding editor of Juice.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time". Amazon.com. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. ^ Creswell, Toby (2005). 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant. ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5.
  3. ^ "Creswell, Toby". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  4. ^ Creswell, Toby (2006). 1001 Songs : The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1-74066-331-4.
  5. ^ a b Creswell, Toby (2007) [2005]. 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them (RocKwiz ed.). Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant. ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5.
  6. ^ Creswell, Toby (1999). The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock & Roll, 1957-now. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-183547-7.
  7. ^ a b "Toby Creswell". Rock's Backpages. Backpages Limited. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  8. ^ a b Boots, Tim (2007-04-23). "Rolling Stone still rocking 35 years on". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  9. ^ Cauchi, Stephen (2007-11-04). "Right, said Led: old fogeys of rock in classic reunion mode". The Age. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
  10. ^ Carney, Shaun (2005-11-05). "Shuffling through a century of song". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 2008-04-24.


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