
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
by John Seabrook
Nowhere is the truism “everything old is new again” truer than in pop music, where all the upheavals of the digital era have brought us back to the hit-factory days of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, and Motown, led this time by a handful of Scandinavians who have married ABBA to R&B to produce …