In the continuation of “Humming Along the Sounds,” there are 33 more stories about popular music—the number of turns a long-playing record makes in one minute. These are stories of super-hits that influenced the industry and changed the course of modern culture, and of underappreciated artists who finally take their rightful place on the pages of this book beside their more successful colleagues. Behind the albums, songs, guitar solos, and electronic beats rise the fates of their authors—fates that, in turn, combine into a colorful and gripping portrait of the times: sixty years of human cultural history. Each chapter is based on one of the episodes of the program “Humming Along the Sounds,” which aired weekly for six years on the “Silver Rain” radio station. The Beatles, Nick Drake, Magma, Big Star, Donna Summer, The Human League, Pulp, Belle & Sebastian, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Twenty One Pilots, Billie Eilish, and others—this is the company that music journalist and critic Lev Gankin takes with him to understand how pop music developed over the last hundred-and-some years and why.