Title: Einstein, Michael Jackson & me : a search for soul in the power pits of rock and roll /
Authors: Bloom, Howard K., 1943-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bloom, Howard K.,; Press agents Biography.; Popular music; Rock music; Mysticism in music; Mysticism in music; Popular music; Press agents; Rock music
Contents: Michael Jackson is dead -- Confessions of a musical klutz -- Hunting the gods inside -- How I accidentally started the Sixties -- The Einstein imperative -- A tale of two hormones--a brief history of pop -- Inventing the heavy-metal magazine -- The Kennedy assassination, the Watergate break-in, and, well, ummm, me...sort of  -- How Vince Furnier became Alice Cooper -- The case of the headless record company -- You fucking nun...Stephanie Mills, Napoleon, and The Wiz -- Dot Records and country crossover--breaking out of the Bible Belt -- Blood in the corridors -- ZZ Top--taking Texas to the world -- The birth of disco--firemen come out of the closet -- Ralph McDonald--the man with atomic clock fingers -- Working miracles--Saturday night fever -- Chris Blackwell and Betty Davis--the man who made reggae -- Buddha Records--the face drained by the mob -- The secret policeman's ball--planting Amnesty International -- Genesis--the band that wouldn't talk -- Peter Gabriel--the rocker who got computers right -- The Police--punk and the dad who co-founded the CIA -- Al Green and Cream Records--the mecca of Memphis -- Sound and passion points--meet the geese who fall in love with, well, with you -- Supertramp--escaping the industrial nightmare -- Simon and Garfunkel reunite -- The man who bit the head off a bat--Ozzy Osbourne -- Joan Jett--the story of the singing fist -- Lessons from Joan Jett--power moms -- REO Speedwagon--the house that slid into a better neighborhood -- Styx--the man who saw the future -- Queen, Soul, South America -- Bob Marley--turning dying into living -- Earth, Wind, and Fire--the path to Prince -- Prince -- Prince's puppets -- Purple rain -- Rap--shit all over your face -- John Mellencamp--hurt so good -- Bob Guccione Jr.--the slaughter of the Hutu and the Tutsis -- How MTV came to be -- Billy Idol--the client who almost died -- Billy Joel--dumbed down by love...and by Christie Brinkley -- Lionel Richie--I failed -- Bette Midler and the talking dog -- The stars I could not grok -- The PMRC--the witches of Washington -- Who killed Michael Jackson? -- Michael Jackson's sexual crucifixion -- Perceptual imprisonment -- Sickness--the blade of CFS.