Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business - Softcover

Dannen, Fredric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900924544 ISBN 13: 9781900924542

Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

Copiously researched and documented, Hit Menis the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business."

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Review:

"A squalidly compelling study of the murky, ill-regulated and shark-infested waters of the American music biz." -- The Guardian, 28 June 2003

....the best book ever written about the business side of the music industry. -- Music Week, June, 2003

About the Author:

Fredric Dannen was a co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's 1986 Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. His articles have appeared inThe New York Times, Vanity Fair, Institutional Investor, Rolling Stone, andBarron's. He received the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award forHit Men."

About this edition

• Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1900924544
• ISBN 13: 9781900924542
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 412