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Author: Simon Napier-Bell
Publisher: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Imprint: Unbound
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.378kg
ISBN: 9781783521043
ISBN 10: 178352104
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 21 May 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
'A fascinating, witty and optimistic music biz history, by one of its legendary insiders . . . An essential text' Mojo 'The only history of pop music you'll ever have to read' Huffington Post
The world's highest-grade rock'n'roll gossip ... Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay is a sharp, fast-moving and beautifully written popular history spanning three centuries of wheeling, dealing, horse-trading, cigar-chewing enterprise and skullduggery -- Mark Ellen There's music and there's the music business. And there's the relationship between the two. Simon Napier-Bell pulls no punches. He tells this roller coaster of a story like it is: engaging, amusing, heartbreaking, enraging and appalling with every turn of the page -- Mark Knopfler One of the best music books I've ever read -- Pete Paphides A fascinating, witty and optimistic music biz history, by one of its legendary insiders ... An essential text Mojo The only history of pop music you'll ever have to read Huffington Post
The world's highest-grade rock'n'roll gossip . . . Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay is a sharp, fast-moving and beautifully written popular history spanning three centuries of wheeling, dealing, horse-trading, cigar-chewing enterprise and skullduggery -- Mark Ellen There's music and there's the music business. And there's the relationship between the two. Simon Napier-Bell pulls no punches. He tells this roller coaster of a story like it is: engaging, amusing, heartbreaking, enraging and appalling with every turn of the page -- Mark Knopfler One of the best music books I've ever read -- Pete Paphides A fascinating, witty and optimistic music biz history, by one of its legendary insiders . . . An essential text * Mojo * The only history of pop music you'll ever have to read * Huffington Post *
Author Information
Simon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter, record producer, and author, but he is perhaps best known for having managed such artists as The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, T Rex, Japan and Wham! Under his management, Wham! became the first Western pop group to ever play in Communist China in the 80s. He is the author of three other books about the music industry- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder, and I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch. He is a director of Papa Entertainments PLC and of Snap-B Music, and continues to consult, write and broadcast on the music industry.
