Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The narrative hook for that section is about the growth of, and subsequent occasional fumbling attempts to rein in, what was essentially Payola 2.

Networks of promoters, many tied to the Mob, would lobby thru all means to get songs on the air and in heavy rotation. The first time was in 1995 and I didn’t care about any of it because I wanted to learn about the Nashville music business. But in 2017, Alan and Luke were both jailed over a ­Kinahan plot to murder Hutch figure Gary Hanley. Their cousin Alan was acquitted of the 2008 abduction and murder of Romanian girl Marioara Rostas on the streets of Dublin. It's competently but not amazingly well written and seems to suffer from a focus bias based on the author's sources.

Drawing on over a thousand cases, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders have an outsized impact on the evolution of both legal and illegal economic activity. Brouwer once again succeeds in combining a sports themed book with an action packed dangerous situation requiring the high school-aged characters to make ethical and moral decisions. A super interesting read about the importance of record promoters in the 70s and 80s to drive album and singles sales. The work, by Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon, tells the story of how the Wilson clan — brothers John, Eric and Keith, their nephew Luke and cousin Alan — all became contract assassins. Record companies were a bit slow to pick up on the rock n roll era, with the big labels sticking mainly to middle-of-the-road, pop, classical artists.

A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner workings of the music business. With the rise of music streaming this book may not be as relevant as it used to be, but if you're interested in how the music business worked in the old days, it's a sobering read. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.Payola, in which cash (and drugs and women) payments were made to DJs and program directors, had been around for decades, but many had assumed that the big Federal crackdown in the early 1960s had killed it. In one way, it's better: unlike Eliot, Dannen documents his sources, leaving you feeling that events really happened as he says they did, instead of thinking (as all too often with Eliot's book) "How interesting--wonder how true it is.

By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Repeated scandals over payola or related promotional practices ultimately came to little, legally, but tied up the industry in knots until they played out.This book exposes the way record companies regularly cheat and scam their artists out of tens of thousands of dollars and the payola schemes of the 1980s. Dannen sets out to tell the story of how the industry began to turn against paying these promoters as those expenses ate up more and more of the revenue. Since 1994, South Africa has witnessed some spectacular underworld killings associated with various industries and sectors. Dry as it can be, but full of all kinds of interesting information and insight into a portion of organized crime's association with the music industry.