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A lifetime's work and the best piece of music writing this year. The real inside story of the British music industry The most authoritative, intelligent, diligently researched and unpretentious analysis of the British pop scene yet written' Sunday TelegraphBlack Vinyl White Powder charts the amazing fifty year history of the British music business in unparalleled scale and detail. As a key player across the decades, Napier-Bell - who discovered Marc Bolan and managed amongst others The Yardbirds and Wham! - uses his wealth of contacts and extraordinary personal experiences to tell the story of an industry that is like no other. Where bad behaviour is not only tolerated but encouraged, where drugs are sometimes as important as talent, where artists are pushed to their physical and mental limits in the name of profit and ego.'The Greatest Ever Book Written about English Pop-Breathtakingly Brilliant' Julie Burchill'The cold print equivalent of a sparkling evening with a world-class raconteur.' Charles Shaar Murray, IndependentBitchy, glib, fun and shrewd' Daily TelegraphProduct Identifiers
PublisherEbury Publishing
ISBN-139780091880927
eBay Product ID (ePID)90226805
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlack Vinyl White Powder
AuthorSimon Napier-Bell
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic, Business
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width126mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSimon Napier-Bell
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom