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Rockonomics

The Money Behind the Music

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  • 304 strony
  • 11 godzin czytania

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In Rockonomics you will discover how Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra cut themselves in for songwriting credit as payment for agreeing to record a tune; the inside story of Dick Clark and Alan Freed, whose business practices were notably similar, but who came out of the payola scandal with careers heading in opposite directions; why, on his first three albums, Bruce Springsteen received nine cents an album to his manager's thirty-six cents; updates on the Beatles $80 million lawsuit, and new lawsuits since this book's original publication, including Billy Joel's; plus, the phenomenon of rap, the death of Bill Graham, the new "political correctness" of rock, a financial report on the state of the business through the first third of the nineties, and much more.

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Rockonomics, Marc Eliot

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Rok wydania
1990
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(twarda),
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Tytuł
Rockonomics
Podtytuł
The Money Behind the Music
Język
angielski
Autorzy
Marc Eliot
Rok wydania
1990
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
304
ISBN10
0711919895
ISBN13
9780711919891
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Opis
In Rockonomics you will discover how Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra cut themselves in for songwriting credit as payment for agreeing to record a tune; the inside story of Dick Clark and Alan Freed, whose business practices were notably similar, but who came out of the payola scandal with careers heading in opposite directions; why, on his first three albums, Bruce Springsteen received nine cents an album to his manager's thirty-six cents; updates on the Beatles $80 million lawsuit, and new lawsuits since this book's original publication, including Billy Joel's; plus, the phenomenon of rap, the death of Bill Graham, the new "political correctness" of rock, a financial report on the state of the business through the first third of the nineties, and much more.