

Sonic Boom
The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, From Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince
Author: Peter Ames Carlin
Narrator: David de Vries
Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 01/19/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Music, Rock
Synopsis
Ostin ushered in a counterintuitive model that matched the counterculture. His offbeat crew reinvented the way business was done, giving their artists free rein while rejecting out-of-date methods of advertising, promotion, and distribution. And even as they set new standards for in-house weirdness, the upstarts' experiments and innovations paid off, to the tune of hundreds of legendary hit albums.
It may sound like a fairy tale, but once upon a time Warner Bros Records conquered the music business by focusing on the music rather than the business. Their story is as raucous as it is inspiring, pure entertainment that also maps a route to that holy grail: love and money.