Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era dylan Ray Nelson

Ray Nelson

Rolling Stone

but it was also a symptom of trouble in the artist’s life

ISBN: 978-1501360787

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era dylan Ray NelsonAuthor: Ken Emerson During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned