What makes a great record? Good songs and performances, obviously, but beyond that the mysterious alchemy of the recording process. This book reveals more than ever before about how that process worked in New York's golden era of popular music, from the early days of magnetic tape to the arrival of digital multitrack.<BR>The book is built a round the fascinating stories of key producers, engineers, arrangers and session men, who tell how they created classic recordings with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, The Shangri-Las, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, The Lovin' Spoonful, Aretha Franklin, Neil Diamond, The Who, The Band, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Kool & The Gang, The Ramones and Madonna.