Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside not just a creative industry but a Business that has made people wildly rich.
Inside you will uncover little-known industry facts including how a formula for writing hit songs in the 1900s helped create 50 000 of the best-known songs of all time how infighting in the American pre-war Music industry shut down traditional radio and created an opening for country Music race records and rock n roll how Jewish immigrants and black jazz musicians dancing cheek-to-cheek created a template for all Popular Music that followed and how rock tours became the biggest quickest sleaziest and most profitable ventures the Music industry has ever seen..
This book describes the evolution of the industry from 1713 the year parliament granted writers ownership over what they wrote to today when a global industry is controlled by just three major players Sony Universal and Warner.
Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside not just a creative industry but a Business that has made people wildly rich
