Andi's review
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
by Dan Kennedy
Andi's review
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
Andi's review
rating:
On Friday afternoon, while sitting in the choir room at my old high school where my mother plays piano as a volunteer, I finished up Dan Kennedy’s Rock On. It was an ironic setting to be reading this book - with so many students dreaming, as Kennedy did, of becoming a rock star - but the reading moment was stellar. As was the book. . .
Kennedy is funny, really funny. In this book about his semi-unexpected employment at a major record label where he has to make ads for Phil Collins and participate in Jewel’s reinvention, he captures the balance between honest self-deprecation and interiority while also guiding the reader through the physical and psychological space that is a corporation that produces art.
Here’s what he writes about the possible buy-out of the company. “Fact: You can be a grown man worrying about having your job yanked up and out of your hand’s by some guy’s grandson who’s got it in his head that he wants to buy a music company. This is so sadly funny to...more
Kennedy is funny, really funny. In this book about his semi-unexpected employment at a major record label where he has to make ads for Phil Collins and participate in Jewel’s reinvention, he captures the balance between honest self-deprecation and interiority while also guiding the reader through the physical and psychological space that is a corporation that produces art.
Here’s what he writes about the possible buy-out of the company. “Fact: You can be a grown man worrying about having your job yanked up and out of your hand’s by some guy’s grandson who’s got it in his head that he wants to buy a music company. This is so sadly funny to...more
