And party every day
Subtitle: the inside story of Casablanca Records
By: Larry Harris, with Curt Gooch and Jeff Suhs.
Contributors: Gooch, Curt.; Suhs, Jeff.
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780879309824
Subjects: Scott, Neil, -- 1943-1982; Casablanca Records -- History; Sound recording industry -- United States -- History; Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
Description: "The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980, the landscape of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, and no person or company in that era was more emblematic of the times than Casablanca Records and its magnetic founder, Neil Bogart. From his daring first signing of KISS, through the discovery and superstardom of Donna Summer, the Village People, and funk master George Clinton and his circus of freaks, Parliament Funkadelic, to the descent into the manic world of disco, this book charts Bogart's meteoric success and eventual collapse under the weight of uncontrolled ego and hype. It is a compelling tale of ambition, greed, excess, and some of the era's biggest music acts." -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction; title: Woodstock (no, really, I was there); title: A converted Buddahist; title: Leaving the nest; title: Our first kiss and a ride on the mothership; title: Kiss-off, America!; title: Steppin' out and comin' home; title: Here's Johnny!; title: The Germans are coming!; title: Alive to love you, baby; title: The new Casbah; title: Breakthrough; title: The mothership arrives; title: The skyrocket takes flight; title: The new bubblegum; title: La-la-land; title: Writing the Billboard charts; title: Cracks in the Casbah; title: Last dance; title: Now and for the rest of your life.