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Capitol Records brought the Beatles to America and the Beach Boys to the world, and its iconic Hollywood tower was home to Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. This epic photographic and musical history is the official account of the legendary label, featuring a foreword by Beck and hundreds of images from the Capitol Record archives exploring the history of pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz.

The Legend of a Music Label 

Capitol Records – from 1942 to today

From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood’s most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world’s most defining labels for the past 75+ years.

To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol’s extensive archives, we follow the label’s evolution and the making of some of the greatest music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz, the photographic and musical history includes the label’s most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the spotlight.

The editor

Reuel Golden is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photography editor at TASCHEN. His TASCHEN titles include: Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, both London and New York Portrait of a City books, Andy Warhol. Polaroids, The Rolling Stones,Her Majesty, Football in the 1970s, the National Geographic editions, and The David Bailey SUMO.

The author

Barney Hoskyns was born in London in 1959. He is the editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, the online library of pop writing and journalism, and a former staff writer at the New Musical Express, contributing editor to Vogue, and U.S. correspondent for MOJO. He is the author of the Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009) and Trampled Under Foot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin (2012).

Capitol Records

Reuel Golden, Barney Hoskyns

Hardcover, 11.8 x 11.8 in., 9.43 lb, 488 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-8649-8

Edition: English