Bumping into geniuses
Subtitle: inside the rock and roll business
By: Danny Goldberg.
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781592403707
Subjects: Goldberg, Danny, -- 1950-; Sound recording executives and producers -- United States; Sound recording industry
Description: "When eighteen-year-old Danny Goldberg wrote his first music review for Billboard, he couldn't have imagined that he would go on to enjoy one of the most varied and influential careers in the world of rock and roll. He went on to do PR for Led Zeppelin and KISS, launched Stevie Nick's solo career, was Bonnie Raitt's manager when she won four Grammys for Nick of Time, managed the career of Nirvana, signed Warren Zevon to his label for the artist's last album, and, in between, ran Atlantic Records. In Bumping into Geniuses, Goldberg shares his stories about those artists with whom he worked closely, as well as others who represent a broad and powerful portion of the psychic real estate of the rock and roll kingdom over the last forty years, including Patti Smith, The Moody Blues, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Courtney Love, Steve Earle, and more."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Woodstock nation's brief state of grace 1969-1977. Almost almost famous ; Underground radio ; Rock and roll grown-ups ; Led Zeppelin, 'mild barbarians'; title: Corporate rock 1977-1989. Rock PR gets professionalized ; Inmates lose control of asylum ; Stevie Nicks : turning rainbows into music and music into gold; title: Rock's middle age 1989-2003. No nukes and nick of time ; Smells like nirvana ; Pros and cons of becoming a record company grown-up ; Warren Zevon : life will kill you.