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    <body><![CDATA[I would love to reread this now, in light of the major-label profit hemorrhaging of the past few years. Less gloating than there could be, though, as the indies are catching up. Amazing stories of rich, corrupt, powerful men who were responsible for all the popular music of the Woodstock generation ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39414480">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an intriguing history of major players and executives in the music business. It primarily focuses on CBS records and its subsidiaries, including direct quotes and interviews with a lot of those executives. The spark that seemed to inspire the book was a resurgance of payola charges in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31910645">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a textbook for music industry history, i'm just thankful that i don't work for walter yetnikov]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little like the Bible in it's history (&quot;Clive begot Walter who betrayed Dick. . .&quot;) but still an interesting account of the '70s-'80s music biz.  I only paid attention to some of this from a distance, since I was in the small indie world at the time, but it's still fascinating today.  It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15499155">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the key to learning that the music industry is all about fucking people over to get to the top! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to understand the promotions side of the music business, this is the book for you.  ]]></body>
    
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