It is not a fantastic book if you wanted to know about the history of the music industry during that time more generally. The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

RL, reluctant and struggling readers into the high school years will find themes that resonate and provide good conversations or writing responses for class work. How was Sony (Japan) or Polygram (Germany) supposed to know what American young people wanted to listen to? This was written back in the early '90s, based mostly on things that happened back in the '70s and '80s, but the version I have was updated maybe 10 years ago, i. Dannen sets out to tell the story of how the industry began to turn against paying these promoters as those expenses ate up more and more of the revenue.Though not everything is right; Dannen gets wrong the date of the Beach Boys' signing with Columbia, for instance.

It's competently but not amazingly well written and seems to suffer from a focus bias based on the author's sources. The only disappointment about the book is that the court cases it mentions at the end did not have a conclusion at press time, so the final resolution of its topics somewhat looms. The end of the book highlights some court cases that were beginning to be filed against independent promoters for payola charges. Looking for books that have a main character as a assassin (could be his life from young age or just a single mission ) the book should also have a heavy focus on the weaponry , tools , plans and executions .It details the terrible cost in human suffering, particularly the death of an innocent teenage girl, Mariaora Rostas, when she randomly crossed their path. Fredric Dannen was a co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's 1986 Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. Repeated scandals over payola or related promotional practices ultimately came to little, legally, but tied up the industry in knots until they played out.

About the Author: Stephen Breen is currently crime editor of the Irish Sun and has made regular appearances on Irish TV to discuss crime issues. Drawing on over a thousand cases, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders have an outsized impact on the evolution of both legal and illegal economic activity. The narrative hook for that section is about the growth of, and subsequent occasional fumbling attempts to rein in, what was essentially Payola 2. A super interesting read about the importance of record promoters in the 70s and 80s to drive album and singles sales.Fredric Dannen and his loyal staff did a bang up job covering the various label bosses and their excesses. The Hitmen' is the shocking story of how a family cornered the market in intimidation and vengeance. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Definitely a valuable period piece, in capturing an industry that had opposed LPs, cassettes, and CDs and was trying to decide if DAT was the future, which I suppose it wasn't.

Chronicling the evolution of America’s largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. It primarily focuses on CBS records and its subsidiaries, including direct quotes and interviews with a lot of those executives. Payola, in which cash (and drugs and women) payments were made to DJs and program directors, had been around for decades, but many had assumed that the big Federal crackdown in the early 1960s had killed it. The Dannen book also becomes a tale of 2 giants of the record industry, Clive Davis and Walter Yetnikof, and how their rise and fall was tied to the tale of record promotion.When Nolan finds out that a lot of things about Nate's new life in Calgary don't make sense—or might not even be legal—Nolan has to make some difficult choices that will affect him and his brother for the rest of their lives.