内容简介
In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the musicbusiness in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press,no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-rollbusiness. Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How didthis change happen? From the moment Pete Seeger tried to cut thepower at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival debut of Bob Dylan'selectric band, rock's cultural influence and business potentialhave been grasped by a rare assortment of ambitious and farsightedmusicians and businessmen. Jon Landau took calls from legendaryproducer Jerry Wexler in his Brandeis dorm room and went on toorchestrate Bruce Springsteen's career. Albert Grossman's cold-eyedassessment of the financial power at his clients' fingertips madehim the first rock manager to blaze the trail that David Geffentransformed into a superhighway. Dylan's uncanny ability to keephis manipulation of the business separate from his art andreputation prefigured the savvy -- and increasingly cynical --professionalism of groups like the Eagles. Fred Goodman, a longtimerock critic and journalist, digs into the contradictions andambiguities of a generation that spurned and sought success withequal fervor. The Mansion on the Hill, named after a song titleused by Hank Williams, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen, breaksnew ground in our understanding of the people and forces that haveshaped the music. "From the Hardcover edition."