Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business
Danny Goldberg, . . Gotham, $26 (307pp) ISBN 978-1-592-40370-7
The title comes from Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun's answer when asked how to make money with music: “the way to get rich was to keep walking around until you bumped into a genius,” as Goldberg paraphrases. Inside the industry for almost four decades, Goldberg now looks back at those he bumped into during his rise from rock writer to public relations to personal management, plus heading three major record companies (Atlantic, Mercury, Warner Bros.). As he puts it, “The idea of this book is to give some impressionistic views, through my eyes, and through the examples of a handful of artists, of the rock and roll business from 1969 through 2004.” He began at
Reviewed on: 06/30/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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