国会唱片公司——从1942年至今国会唱片大楼，是好莱坞的地标性建筑，也是过去75年来国会录音室的所在地。披头士、贝克、辛纳屈、山姆·史密斯等影响时代的音乐艺术家都在这录制过作品。

为了纪念国会唱片公司从1942年成立至今的非凡历史，TASCHEN推出了这本官方音乐记录史。本书包括贝克的前言，文化历史学家、音乐家、建筑家的评论文章，来自国会唱片档案的数百张图片，探索了该唱片公司的演变，20世纪和21世纪伟大的音乐制作。这本摄影和音乐史呈现了各种音乐风格：流行、摇滚、乡村、古典、灵魂、爵士，包括公司的主要艺人，和那些在聚光灯下昙花一现的明星。

一路走来，我们遇到了国会唱片成立20年间的迈尔斯·戴维斯、纳京高、金斯顿三重奏乐队、辛纳屈等；60年代的海滩男孩、the Band、披头士；70年代的摇滚乐队平克·弗洛伊德、风翼乐队、米勒乐队、鲍勃·西格、琳达·龙斯塔特；80和90年代的野兽男孩、杜兰杜兰、收音机头、邦尼·瑞特；以及当代的酷玩乐队、水果姐凯蒂·佩里、萨姆·史密斯。本书赞颂了这个强大的行业巨人，它创造了过去、现在和未来几代人的原声带，非常适合音乐爱好者。

Capitol Records – from 1942 to today

From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-

defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood’s most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world’s most defining labels for the past 75+ years.

To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol’s extensive archives, we follow the label’s evolution and the making of some of the greatest music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz, the photographic and musical history includes the label’s most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the spotlight.

Along the way, we encounter the likes of Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, the Kingston Trio, and Frank Sinatra in Capitol’s first 20 years; the Beach Boys, the Band, and the Beatles in the 1960s; global rock magnets Pink Floyd, Wings, Steve Miller Band, Bob Seger, and Linda Ronstadt in the 1970s; Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Radiohead, and Bonnie Raitt in the 1980s and 1990s; and such contemporary stars as Coldplay, Katy Perry, and Sam Smith. An unmissable milestone for music lovers, Capitol Records is a live and kicking celebration of the mighty giant of the industry that created the soundtrack to generations past, present, and future.