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Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished love songs of all time.
Pop the champagne, get the roses ready, and settle down in your favorite armchair. Love is universal to the human experience and love songs bring us joy and remind us of happy moments from our life. We all want it and we all crave it but it’s not always easy to find. In this beautifully illustrated volume, We Found Love, Song by Song tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished love songs of all time and their everlasting impact. From artists such as Fred Astaire and Nat King Cole all the way up to Whitney Houston and Harry Styles, this all-encompassing collection of love songs is sure to ignite the flame and inspire a new favorite playlist.
What moving song did Paul McCartney pen as a love letter to his wife and record in one day? What iconic tune about cheating and piña coladas ends with a relationship being saved? What popular ballad was written from the perspective of Juliet and led to hundreds of in-concert proposals? Spanning musical genres and decades of classics and modern hits, featured songs include:
Etta James, “At Last” Elvis Presley, “Can’t Help Falling in Love” Sonny and Cher, “I Got You Babe” Queen, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” Foreigner, “I Want to Know What Love Is” Marvin Gaye, “Sexual Healing” Tina Turner, “The Best” Elton John, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” Shania Twain, “You’re Still the One” Rihanna, “We Found Love” John Legend, “All of Me” Taylor Swift, “Love Story”
And many more!
Including full-color illustrations throughout, this gorgeously packaged companion is the perfect gift for you and your loved ones to cherish any time of year.
From the Publisher
Love songs capture the indescribable, intangible feeling when your heart overflows with affection and tenderness for someone else.
Songwriters often draw from their own lives when penning love songs, incorporating their own romantic experiences and relationships to create evocative and relatable music and lyrics.
Some love songs chronicle the soul-crushing, allconsuming, and totally exhausting experience of unrequited love, or the experience of yearning for the type of love you desire.
Love songs are for everybody – and so is this book. Choosing just 100 love songs is an impossible task, but that’s exactly what this collection aims to do!
Excerpt: “Islands in the Stream,” 1983, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
KENNY ROGERS WAS king of the duet in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. Not only did he release two collaborative albums with country icon Dottie West, but he also had hits teaming up with Sheena Easton, Kim Carnes, and Ronnie Milsap. Rogers’s biggest duet was with his old pal Dolly Parton: In 1983, the pair joined forces for the indomitable “Islands in the Stream.” A jaunty number about two people realizing they can’t–and, more important, don’t want to–live without each other, “Islands in the Stream” praises the power of a rock-solid love. Nothing can come between them–not other people, not suspicion of their relationship, not life’s vicissitudes. Instead, the pair share mutual respect (and attraction) and are happy enjoying their time together.
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Publisher : Running Press Adult (December 3, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0762487003
ISBN-13 : 978-0762487004
Item Weight : 1.46 pounds
Dimensions : 7.27 x 0.79 x 8.22 inches