Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2020
432 pages
978-1-4930-5168-7 (ISBN)
Description
Howard Bloom-called "the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known" by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull-is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock-and-roll legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Queen, Kiss, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, Chaka Khan, and one hundred more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me. Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me is Bloom's story-the strange tale of a scientific expedition into the dark underbelly of science and fame where new myths and movements are made.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-5168-7 (9781493051687)
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Based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Howard Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, [and] Freud" by Britain's Channel 4 TV, and "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear magazine. One of Bloom's seven books, Global Brain, was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT.
Content
- Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- 1. Michael Jackson Is Dead
- 2. Confessions of a Musical Klutz
- 3. Hunting the Gods Inside
- 4. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties
- 5. The Einstein Imperative
- 6. A Tale of Two Hormones-A Brief History of Pop
- 7. Inventing the Heavy-Metal Magazine
- 8. The Kennedy Assassination, the Watergate Break-in, and, Well, Ummm, Me . . . Sort Of
- 9. How Vince Furnier Became Alice Cooper
- 10. The Case of the Headless Record Company
- 11. You Fucking Nun . . . Stephanie Mills, Napoleon, and The Wiz
- 12. Dot Records and Country Crossover-Breaking Out of the Bible Belt
- 13. Blood in the Corridors
- 14. ZZ Top-Taking Texas to the World
- 15. The Birth of Disco-Firemen Come Out of the Closet
- 16. Ralph MacDonald-The Man with Atomic Clock Fingers
- 17. Working Miracles-Saturday Night Fever
- 18. Chris Blackwell and Betty Davis-The Man Who Made Reggae
- 19. Buddha Records-The Face Drained by the Mob
- 20. The Secret Policeman's Ball-Planting Amnesty International
- 21. Genesis-The Band That Wouldn't Talk
- 22. Peter Gabriel-The Rocker Who Got Computers Right
- 23. The Police-Punk and the Dad Who Co-Founded the CIA
- 24. Al Green and Cream Records-The Mecca of Memphis
- 25. Soul and Passion Points-Meet the Geese Who Fall in Love With, Well, With You
- 26. Supertramp-Escaping the Industrial Nightmare
- 27. Simon and Garfunkel Reunite
- 28. The Man Who Bit the Head Off a Bat-Ozzy Osbourne
- 29. Joan Jett-The Story of the Singing Fist
- 30. Lessons from Joan Jett-Power Moms
- 31. REO Speedwagon-The House That Slid Into a Better Neighborhood
- 32. Styx-The Man Who Saw the Future
- 33. Queen, Soul, South America
- 34. Bob Marley-Turning Dying Into Living
- 35. Earth, Wind, and Fire-the Path to Prince
- 36. Prince
- 37. Prince's Puppets
- 38. Purple Rain
- 39. Rap-Shit All Over Your Face
- 40. John Mellencamp-Hurt So Good
- 41. Bob Guccione Jr.-The Slaughter of the Hutu and the Tutsis
- 42. How MTV Came to Be
- 43. Billy Idol-The Client Who Almost Died
- 44. Billy Joel-Dumbed Down by Love . . . and by Christie Brinkley
- 45. Lionel Richie-I Failed
- 46. Bette Midler and the Talking Dog
- 47. The Stars I Could Not Grok
- 48. The PMRC-The Witches of Washington
- 49. Who Killed Michael Jackson?
- 50. Michael Jackson's Sexual Crucifixion
- 51. Perceptual Imprisonment
- 52. Sickness-The Blade of CFS
- Notes
- Index
