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It's One For The Money Clinton Heylin

It's One For The Money By Clinton Heylin

It's One For The Money by Clinton Heylin


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Summary

A cross between Hollywood Babylon and The Hitmen, It's One For The Money rips the lid off Pop's own Pandora box and explicates just what it is that makes the world of sound go round - song publishing.

It's One For The Money Summary

It's One For The Money by Clinton Heylin

Song publishing is the one constant in the carousel of recorded music now spanning the past century, and has been the way that song-credits and publishing revenue have caused ructions and recriminations, and inspired writers by making them poor and lawyers rich.

Whether it be Procul Harum going to court to decide who really wrote 'Whiter Shade of Pale' or the Moody Blues wanting their fair share of 'Nights of White Satin', when the song-credits get divvied up, a parting of the ways citing 'musical differences' is almost inevitable.

So here are some choice examples of poplore held up to the light,some familiar to music fans others not, designed to prove that Dylan knew of what he wrote when he suggested, 'Money doesn't talk, it swears'.
Between them, they provide the unvarnished story of popular song from the days jukeboxes and radio replaced wax cylinders and piano rolls to the era of digital downloads, legal and illegal...

It's One For The Money Reviews

A terrific guide to the evolution of the popular song Spectator * Spectator *
[A] meticulous study of music publishing, plagiarism and song ownership -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times *
Fascinating stuff, intensively researched and utterly intriguing -- Fred Dellar * Mojo *
Fabulously well-researched ... it's a story well told, in eye-popping detail * Independent *

About Clinton Heylin

Clinton Heylin is the author of biographies of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, and histories of US and UK punk (From The Velvets To The Voidoids and Babylon's Burning), he has tackled every aspect of pop music and culture in a 25-year career as a full-time author/historian.

Additional information

GOR007892701
9781472122117
1472122119
It's One For The Money by Clinton Heylin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20160707
480
Long-listed for Penderyn Music Book Prize 2016 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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