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A nauseatingly honest and therefore controversial expose of the base beings that inhabit the higher levels of the music industry. Filled with horror stories that will confirm your worst suspicions about the toxicity of what my friends and I call "Planet CD Wood."
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English rock group Pink Floyd was one of the hottest bands in 1980, with an LP shooting up the charts and a concert tour that sold out within hours. But the group was unable to get airplay for its latest single, at least not without engaging the services of a nascent breed of freelance promoters whose practices ushered in a new era of payola. These promotors, dubbed "indies," used illegal methods and had suspected mob connections. That the recording industry not only tolerated but embraced the indies is indicative of the questionable tactics now employed in this high-stakes arena, charges Dannen in a sharply critical study. At its center is industry leader CBS records, whose president Walter Yetnikoff is depicted as a bully of Machiavellian proportions whose style set the tone throughout the business in the '80s. Dannen, a reporter for Institutional Investor , mixes the skills of an investigative journalist with the gifts of an expert storyteller in an expose that will intrigue and appall readers with its disclosures. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Vanity Fair; author tour.
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A nauseatingly honest and therefore controversial expose of the base beings that inhabit the higher levels of the music industry. Filled with horror stories that will confirm your worst suspicions about the toxicity of what my friends and I call "Planet CD Wood."
From Publishers Weekly
English rock group Pink Floyd was one of the hottest bands in 1980, with an LP shooting up the charts and a concert tour that sold out within hours. But the group was unable to get airplay for its latest single, at least not without engaging the services of a nascent breed of freelance promoters whose practices ushered in a new era of payola. These promotors, dubbed "indies," used illegal methods and had suspected mob connections. That the recording industry not only tolerated but embraced the indies is indicative of the questionable tactics now employed in this high-stakes arena, charges Dannen in a sharply critical study. At its center is industry leader CBS records, whose president Walter Yetnikoff is depicted as a bully of Machiavellian proportions whose style set the tone throughout the business in the '80s. Dannen, a reporter for Institutional Investor , mixes the skills of an investigative journalist with the gifts of an expert storyteller in an expose that will intrigue and appall readers with its disclosures. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Vanity Fair; author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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indie promotion, new payola, payola case, indie promo men, payola statute, pop roster, indie promoters, payola charges, payola probe, independent promotion, bar mitzvah reception, label bosses, independent promoters, mob involvement, label president, promotion man, promotion executive, record business, promotion men, record industry, custom label, confidential source, label heads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Walter Yetnikoff, Dick Asher, Joe Isgro, Clive Davis, Los Angeles, Morris Levy, Goddard Lieberson, Warner Bros, David Geffen, Allen Grubman, Arthur Taylor, Michael Jackson, United States, Warner Communications, Pink Floyd, Irving Azoff, Billy Joel, Wall Street, Frank Dileo, Bruce Springsteen, Geffen Records, Larry Tisch, Donna Summer, Elliot Goldman New!
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PINK Floyd booked five concert dates at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in February 1980 and sold them out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indie promotion, new payola, payola case, indie promo men, payola statute, pop roster, indie promoters, payola charges, payola probe, independent promotion, bar mitzvah reception, label bosses, independent promoters, mob involvement, label president, promotion man, promotion executive, record business, promotion men, record industry, custom label, confidential source, label heads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Walter Yetnikoff, Dick Asher, Joe Isgro, Clive Davis, Los Angeles, Morris Levy, Goddard Lieberson, Warner Bros, David Geffen, Allen Grubman, Arthur Taylor, Michael Jackson, United States, Warner Communications, Pink Floyd, Irving Azoff, Billy Joel, Wall Street, Frank Dileo, Bruce Springsteen, Geffen Records, Larry Tisch, Donna Summer, Elliot Goldman New!
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