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Never Say No to a Rock Star
- In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In 1974, at the age of 17, author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler, and James Brown performed their hit-making magic, honed their sound, strutted their stuff, bared their souls, and threw epic tantrums. In this memoir, full of revelatory and previously unknown anecdotal observations of these musical giants, Berger recounts how he quickly learned the ropes to move up from schlepperhood to assistant to the tyrannical Ramone, and eventually, to become a recording engineer superstar himself. Not only is Never Say No to a Rock Star a fascinating, hilarious, and poignant behind-the-scenes look of this musical Mecca, but Berger, now a prominent psychologist, looking back through the prism of his youthful experience and his years working as a counselor and therapist, provides a telling and honest examination of the nature of fame and success and the corollaries between creativity, madness, and self-destruction.
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- Lucy T.
- 20-07-23
Loved the behind the scenes in a recording studio
This book was a Really nice surprise. I particularly like the tone of the writer and the reader managed to express the story so well I could visualise all of it like a movie
This book will appeal to all the geeky technical studio sound boffins and there is a lovely family story to go with it
Great descriptions of NY in the 70s
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- Aucher
- 13-08-23
Great story - thoughtfullybtold
I do like my rock and pop history, especially those with a different angle to a familiar place or persons. And this is right up there. So not just the artists mentioned in the blurb but also key places such as Greenwich Village and New York in general. A view from the inside from someone who is now on the outside. Excellent.
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