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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1990
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- Titel
- Rockonomics
- Untertitel
- The Money Behind the Music
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Marc Eliot
- Verlag
- Omnibus Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1990
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0711919895
- ISBN13
- 9780711919891
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Handel, Musikalische Thematik, Ökonomie
- Beschreibung
- 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.