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They're Playing My Song: Fifty-Two Great Songwriters Discuss Their Craft

Contributor(s): Pollock, Bruce (Author)

ISBN: 9798855803402

Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

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Pub Date: September 1, 2025

Dewey: 782.42164092

LCCN: 2024057618

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.63" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.89 lbs) 298 pages

Series: Excelsior Editions

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Description: The greatest songwriters of the rock era tell how they created their biggest hits.

Brief description: Bruce Pollock has been writing about rock music since the 1970s when he began his career as a music journalist. The author of over twenty-five books, he is a well-known authority on popular song.

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"Songwriting is a mysterious gift. It's a blessing. A calling. For an illuminating inside glimpse at some of this magic, read this book." - Julie Gold, Grammy Award-winning songwriter

"Bruce Pollock has been writing about songs and songwriters from the inside out, and the history from the outside with great perspective for decades. He knows, he cares, and he delivers. It's why his books have such resonance, and his insight is so trusted." - Holly Gleason, editor of Woman Walk the Line: How The Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives and Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine

"Pollock is perhaps the most important scholar of American pop music." - Greg Shaw, founder, Bomp! Records

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