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    Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
    Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
    Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
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    Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...

    Written by Glenn Berger

    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne

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    In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's AR Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler, and James Brown performed their hit-making magic, honed their sound, strutted their stuff, bared their souls, and threw epic tantrums. In this memoir, full of revelatory and previously unknown anecdotal observations of these musical giants, Berger recounts how he quickly learned the ropes to move up from schlepperhood to assistant to the tyrannical Ramone, and eventually, to become a recording engineer superstar himself. Not only is Never Say No to a Rock Star a fascinating, hilarious, and poignant behind-the-scenes look of this musical Mecca, but Berger, now a prominent psychologist, looking back through the prism of his youthful experience and his years working as a counselor and therapist, provides a telling and honest examination of the nature of fame and success and the corollaries between creativity, madness, and self-destruction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 6, 2017
    ISBN9781541475854
    Never Say No To A Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book! Takes you right back to 1970s music scene in NYC. Very well written and has some good takeaways from a philosophical standpoint. Glenn is the perfect guy to analyze the insanity of the people and situations of the music business.
    • 3/5
      I had no idea who Glen Berger was when I started this book but I have just recently become interested in the recording asect of music during the seventies. I enjoyed the first half of the book which Glen spends on his youth and early days in the industry. He didn't like a lot of artists (Paul Simon, Bob Dylan) but he has some interesting tales to tell about a lot of people. Halway through when he becomes a "big shot", in his own words, he becomes a lot harder to take. He's one of these cocky, arrogant guys who gets off on being self-deprecating. Near the end are a few hapters where he soul searches the meaning of life whch were really hard to take and I sarted skimming from that point on. An okay book but it's hard to really enjoy a emoir when you don't like the guy who's telling the story.
    • 4/5
      Berger's memoir of his rise from lowly schlepper to respected recording engineer at A&M is a combination of up-close-and-personal descriptions of working with Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Karen Carpenter, and others, with his own coming of age story. Now a pscyhotherapist, he has the benefit of years of hindsight and professional training to illuminate his complicated emotional reactions to the stars, colleagues, and boss and mentor Phil Ramone, but he doesn't get bogged down in navel gazing.

      About three-quarters of the way through, the narrative takes a sudden twist as he focuses on his emotional reaction to adopting his second child, and it's a jarring shift. But eventually he connects back to the earlier parts of the book and achieves a graceful resolution.