Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01H7K9MI6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 365 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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lorac St Paul MN said Nice Autobio of "Behind the Scenes" Fame. Berger was a recording engineer in the 1970's in NYC. He's now a Psychologist in upstate NY. He has had a fascinating life and it was hard to stop reading this book because of the adventures & encounters he had with THE great singers and musicians of that era. I would have liked to know. Love love LOVED it! I'm a musician, singer, composer, arranger, producer and vocal coach with thousands of studio hours under my belt, so I was hoping this book would be both interesting and REAL. From the very beginning, I felt like I'd love to be friends with the author so we could trade stories! Don't k. Sharon said Exciting and emotionally compelling!. I often wish I had been able to experience New York City’s music scene in the 1970’s. Reading Glenn Berger’s Never Say No to a Rock Star allowed me to feel like a fly on the wall during some of the hottest and funkiest recording sessions at A&R studios during that time
"A fascinating and meticulously detailed virtual tour of life in the recording studio It is also a collection of juicy thumbnail sketches of the show-biz titans Dylan, Jagger, Sinatra, Fosse." —Don Shewey, journalist, author, Sam Shepard
In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer, Phil Ramone, at New York City's A&R Studios. Not only is this book 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.. He 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 r