SOUNDTRACK: Spotify playlist: The Music Shop–Songs from and Inspired by the Rachel Joyce Novel (2017).
Penguin books has created a Spotify playlist based on the music mentioned in the story.
There’s music by:
- Aretha Franklin
- David Bowie
- Shalamar
- Duke Ellington
- Sex Pistols
- Miles Davis
- Led Zeppelin
- Van Morrison
- James Brown
- Isaac Hayes
- The Troggs
- The Beach Boys
- Billie Holiday
- Nick Drake
and classical composers like
- Bach
- Chopin
- Perotin
- Beethoven
- Verdi
- Barber
- Handel
[READ: August 2021] The Music Shop
I don’t remember how I heard about this book, but it was a fun fast read.
Set in 1988 It’s about a curmudgeon who owns a music shop (vinyl only) and how he falls in love.
Frank has a special gift: he can talk with you for a few minutes and figure out exactly what music you need to hear right now (on vinyl of course). It’s not a lucrative gift, but the people who take advantage of it are beyond thrilled.
The first chapter is about a man who only listed to Chopin and how Frank turned him on to Aretha Franklin exactly when he needed her music.
Frank’s shop is in a cul de sac with a few other businesses. None of them are thriving; most of them are doing almost okay. Maud owns the tattoo shop and sort of has a thing for Frank (he is way too oblivious to realize it). She is tough (a tattoo parlor owner after all) and has some of the best lines in the book (I love her). There’s also Father Anthony, a priest who owns a religious icons shop. He is cool and chill and likes to hang out in the record shop. And there’s a mortician (actually twins) who share space in the cul de sac.
Frank has one employee, Kit, an excitable teenaged boy who is clumsy in many ways and provides for most of the honesty in the book. (more…)
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