Musikindustri

Birdnest records startade 1983 under namnet BIRDSKIT RECORDS i mitt pojkrum. Lagret fanns länge under min säng. Med tiden växte både bolaget och visionerna och namnet ändrades till BIRDNEST RECORDS och blev under 90-talet ett av sveriges största s...

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In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate. With...

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På drygt tio år har Spotify räddat skivbolagen från piraterna, ritat om musikindustrin och fått självaste Apple att byta affärsmodell. Spotify inifrån skildrar en värld av intriger, hemliga avtal och uppköpsbud från bolag som Microsoft, Google och...

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WINNER OF THE 2025 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE Rough Trade Book of the Year Uncut Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year A Guardian Book of the Year A Daily Mail Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year A Resident Book of the Year A Teleg...

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Dubbed "the industry bible" by the Los Angeles Times, All You Need to Know About the Music Business by veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is the go-to guide for everyone in the music business through ten editions, over thirty years, and over a ha...

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A 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN: The Guardian, The Telegraph, GQ and The Wire 'Passionate and rigorous... riveting' Financial Times '[a] cool-headed but powerful polemic...' Sunday Times ' A studs-up assault on streaming economics' The Guardian 'A...

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A chance remark on the stairs at Peter Morris Music in London's Denmark Street, in October 1963, set off a chain reaction that helped Brian Epstein apply some much-needed leverage on America's Hollywood-based Capitol label. Although February 1963 ...

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THE GUARDIAN BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2025 'Unmissable... sparkling, witty and shrewd. In a world of music books retelling tired legends, Men of a Certain Age offers that rare thing: an entirely original take on rock history', Alexis Petridis 'Fascinat...

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En Handbok om Musikbranschen - Aktörerna, Avtalen & Sedvänjan är en unik redogörelse för hur musikindustrin fungerar och ett måste för alla som vill veta mer om den. Sissi riktar sig inte bara till dig som är artist, låtskrivare, producent, manage...

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'For years now, I've been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I've tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 Super. They are so lost in their own moment of performance that they don't see me with the camera.' Colin Gree...

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'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'...

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'This is as definitive an account of the artist as we have to date' MOJO 'It's a treasure trove of personal recollections, and the picture that emerges is of a band with an incredible connection to its fans that would be unimaginable today . . . W...

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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned...

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A Times Book of the Year An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Waterstones Music Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A Louder Book of the Year 'Probably the best Bush book to date.' - Record Collector Kate Bush: the subject of murmured...

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The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his life It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. Giving unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life, it details hi...

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The perfect gift for Nick Cave fans! Discover the complete lyrics, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'Hagan From Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henr...

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"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound-Leo Fender and ...

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**THE PERFECT GIFT FOR BILLIE EILISH FANS** A celebration of Billie Eilish's refreshing outlook, creativity and independence. We all want a bit more Billie in our lives! Billie Eilish isn't up for conforming to others' expectations of what a young...

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What’s the secret to writing a hit song? It’s as simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6! Innovative, practical, and inspiring, Six Steps to Songwriting Success presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hi...

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In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate. With...

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Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, a musician, and an author in this history of recorded music, which focuses on the development of music production as both art form and profession. This comprehensive narrative begins in ...

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The hard-won pleasures of putting heart over brains, conviction over caution, and madness over market share"The music business is not a meritocracy: it is a crapshoot taking place in a septic tank balanced on the prow of the Titanic, a venal snake...

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FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY 'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy When someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of White Rabbit's...

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The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. Around January 1956 the photographer Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion of...

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The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world's greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life f...

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Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as 'post-digital' and 'post-internet'. It also discusses the creation,...

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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that mark...

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#2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was black and wh...

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'An adventurer, an entrepreneur, a buccaneer, a visionary' - BONO As the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most important musicians of the second half of the twentieth centu...

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