Mansion On The Hill

This hard-nosed history of the rock-music business concentrates particularly on the rise of the manipulative, calculating and utterly ruthless, billionaire music business Svengali, David Geffen.

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In MANSION ON THE HILL Fred Goodman looks in extraordinary and fascinating detail at the business of rock music, from the early, innocent days of the 1960s to the moment when 'the music no longer drove the business, but the business drove the music.' Focusing on a handful of rock's most influential figures, he concentrates particularly on the rise of David Geffen, an extraordinary tale of personal and entrepreneurial self-invention, and Geffen's acolyte Jon Landau, who began as a rock journalist and ended as the manager of Bruce Springsteen and the orchestrator of his career.