Clive: Working with the Man in the Age of Vinyl - Couverture souple

Silver, Don

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0985767308 ISBN 13 : 9780985767303

Editeur : Don Silver, 2013

Synopsis

At twenty-one, after years playing in a band, Don Silver filled his briefcase with overblown resumes and headed to New York City, where he landed a job every musician dreamed of: working as an A&R man for Clive Davis. The problem was, the year was 1981 and the charts were topped by disco records. And to Don's horror, Clive seemed more interested in making hit singles that would make the cash register jingle than in finding great artists making important music. In two years, Don went from wanting nothing more than to please his temperamental boss to wanting nothing to do with the world this talented narcissist ruled. But is it that easy to give up the perks and power? Filled with the same love of language and lyricism that made his first novel, Backward-Facing Man, a critical success, this short literary memoir is not just a portrait of a great record man, but a riff on life, ambition and music that will touch readers hearts and souls, just like great rock n roll.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Don Silver was born and raised in Philadelphia, studied business in college and moved to New York City in the late 1970s, where he worked as an A&R man for Arista Records, as an independent record producer and as an artist manager. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Philadelphia and ran a manufacturing company and in 1999, took an MFA in writing at Bennington College. That same year, he quit corporate life to finish his first novel, Backward-Facing Man, which Publisher's Weekly called "a complex beautifully turned out thriller."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Don Silver
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0985767308
• ISBN 13: 9780985767303
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg