Name: ‘Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths’ with Steven Vass (Talk/Q&A)
Start: 2024-11-17T14:00:00+00:00
Location: 38 New York Street, Leeds

$\u2018Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths\u2019 with Steven Vass (Talk\/Q&A)$

We are exited to be welcoming Steven Vass author of ‘Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths’ Velocity Press, down to Outlaws for a talk with Q&A 🎶
Let The Music Play is a look at how artists and producers used synths and other new music tech to reinvent R&B. Covering a wide range of artists, genres and scenes, including disco, LA/Solar Records, Minneapolis/Prince, boogie, New York electro/post-disco, Britfunk, Jam & Lewis, movie/promo influence and mid-80s pop. As well as covering big stars like Prince and Janet Jackson, it looks at many great artists who are often forgotten, such as Skyy, Loose Ends, Imagination, Colonel Abrams, Princess, Gwen Guthrie, Lillo Thomas, Zapp, Jonzun Crew and Yarbrough & Peoples.
Steven will be telling the story of how everyone from Prince to Grace Jones to Sade seized on synths and drum machines to create a blueprint for modern music. Where most people associate early synth development with artists like Kraftwerk or Gary Numan, this book aims to set the record straight 😎
Our host for the event is Mike Greenwell of World Treasures Music 🥰
**Tickets are FREE but very LIMITED, so grab yours now as we expect this to be a sell out event and a Sunday afternoon to remember**
Outlaws x