The Mansion on the Hill Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 04/01/1998
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From the moment Bob Dylan outraged folkies by picking up an electric guitar, rock music sought to change the world. Today rock is merely an asset in a $20 billion industry whose moguls have been known to sue the talent for releasing insufficiently commercial records. Nowhere has the story of the commercialization of rock and roll been told with greater insight than in The Mansion on the Hill.
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Drawing on unprecedentedly candid interviews with rock's luminaries and behind-the-scenes fixers, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman takes readers from the coffee houses of 1960s Boston to the boardrooms of 1990s L.A. as he relates the uneasy alliances between visionaries like Dylan, Young, and Springsteen and the men who launched their careers. At once an elegy and an indictment, Goodman's masterpiece of music reportage has the narrative sweep of a great novel.
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