Music Industry

Everyone knows music is big business, but do you really understand how ideas and inspiration become songs, products, downloads, concerts and career...

'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help bo...

Most people regard legal contracts with an inherent suspicion. Having heard scores of horror stories we in the music business whether artists so...

The book explores the history of Decca Studios, where thousands of records were made between 1937 and 1980. Klooks Kleek was run next door from 196...

Payola is as old as the music industry and continues today. Contrary to popular belief, the acceptance of payola is legal. (Only the nonreportin...

'Essential reading for anyone interested in the heady, vulgar, marvellous miasma of British music and culture in the nineties' Irving Welsh'A true...

The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an observer. I want...

Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business...

This is a biography of the music critic and commentator, chronicling his familys history over 300 years at Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow (now a ce...

Country music evokes a simple, agrarian past, with images of open land and pickup trucks. While some might think of the genre as a repository of no...