Book Review: The Rise & Fall Of The Music Industry

As you might now I’m besides being a blogger I’m also a Dj (Disc Jockey) and I happen to love music very much. Here’s a book review on the Rise and Fall of the Music Industry. Note…its for the music trivia inclined-who knows maybe it can even teach us about what kind of industries to avoid investing in…

Quick Overview (Via NPR)

Rolling Stone contributing editor Steve Knopper chronicles the rise of the record industry — and its subsequent digital-age collapse — in his new book, Appetite For Self-Destruction.

Article Introduction (Via NPR)

One man almost destroyed the music industry in the late ’70s. His name was Steve Dahl, and he was a roundish Chicago rock disc jockey with huge glasses and a shaggy bowl cut. In a maniacally nasal voice, he pioneered shock radio with his outrageous stunts. Once, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, he made random on-air calls to Iran and savagely mocked the first person with a foreign accent to answer. But the WLUP-FM DJ didn’t find widespread recognition until he started smashing Donna Summer records in the studio, calling to arms a crazed group of followers he dubbed the Insane Coho Lips.

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