Rock On by Dan Kennedy
How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music? Before you answer, we'll throw in a plush office, a hip assistant and a bottomless expense account? Dan Kennedy thinks all of his dreams have come true at once. In reality, he's just walked into a nightmarish episode of The Office. From his first assigment - creating a campaign celebrating 25 years of Phil Collins' love songs - he knows he's in way over his head, and from the looks of others around the boardroom, he's not alone. With cameos by ageing rock stars, dinosaur music-biz kingpins, hip-hop thugs and Iggy Pop, Rock On is an achingly funny tale of rock and roll, office life, and what happens when the suits take control.
"Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays with his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaiing resultsYou trust for his own well-being that he doesn't bump into some of the ex-colleagues he describes in such hilariously unflattering detail too soon" * Guardian *
"'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... [a] high-spirited obituary for the record business" * Sunday Times *
"Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business will ever be the same" * New York Times *
"If he weren't so self-deprecating, Kennedy might come off as a jerk. But he's just as hard on himself and, besides, he's funny. Super funny" * Los Angeles Times *
"A droll antidote to the standard music-biz memoir" -- Robert Sandall * Sunday Times *
"'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... [a] high-spirited obituary for the record business" * Sunday Times *
"Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business will ever be the same" * New York Times *
"If he weren't so self-deprecating, Kennedy might come off as a jerk. But he's just as hard on himself and, besides, he's funny. Super funny" * Los Angeles Times *
"A droll antidote to the standard music-biz memoir" -- Robert Sandall * Sunday Times *
Dan Kennedy is a regular contributor to McSweeney's and his work has appeared in The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists, GQ magazine and other publications. He lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099522935 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099522934 |
| Title | Rock On |
| Author | Dan Kennedy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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