Danny Goldberg has been in the music business since the 1960s as a journalist, PR person, personal manager whose clients included Nirvana and Bonnie Raitt, and as president of three major record companies: Atlantic Records, Warner Bros Records and Mercury Records. He currently runs Gold Village Entertainment and he is the author of the book How the Left Lost Teen Spirit.
"A behemoth in the rock 'n' roll industry."
-Vanity Fair
"Goldberg tells of his adventures in the music business with
insight, humor and compassion."
-The Seattle Times
"An insightful behind-the-scenes view of the music industry from
1969 through 2004...Reading Bumping Into Geniuses is like having a
laminated backstage pass to the music business, intertwined with a
juicy slice of countercultural history."
-Paul Krassner, Los Angeles Times
"There's no doubt [Goldberg] loves the music business - lives, eats
and breathes it. His new book Bumping Into Geniuses is one of the
best on the subject."
-San Antonio Express-News
"Danny Goldberg chronicles the phases of his career - rock
journalist, record- company president, manager to musicians ranging
from Kurt Cobain to Warren Zevon - with the sort of candor few
record-biz execs would attempt....Admirably blunt, but also spiked
with tart humor."
-Entertainment Weekly
"[A] surprisingly excellent book, an engaging, droll and -
incandescent artistes to the contrary - largely demystifying look
at the evolution of the rock trade from Woodstock to grunge...There
is an elegiac quality to Bumping Into Geniuses." -The New York
Times Book Review
"Bumping Into Geniuses is such an important text for
2008...Goldberg's book presents a time when popular music really
mattered, when the authentic fed the commercial and the commercial
widened the scope of the authentic."
-Milwaukee Express News
"Goldberg summons up some fascinating anecdotes as he writes about
these performers with much honesty and compassion, bringing it all
back home."
-Publishers Weekly
"A good taste of life in the music biz...It's not only the tales
themselves that make Bumping Into Geniuses a great read; it's how
Goldberg tells the stories. You really get the feeling that he
loved every moment. He appears to have learned as much from his
minor setbacks as he did from his major successes."
-The Jewish Journal
"For readers wanting a look behind the curtain, Goldberg offers
valuable personal experience that only the music industry's elite
are equipped to share."
-The Hartford Courant
"For anyone interested in the rock and roll industry, or simply the
mores and temperaments of the musicians themselves, Bumping into
Geniuses is an incredible insider's tale."
-Vintage Guitar
"Goldberg is an industry icon... In Bumping Into Geniuses, [he]
explains how the essence of music changed from being about the
artistry to being about the business, but he also shares -- to the
best of his recollections -- insider stories about Jimmy Page's
drug haze, the irritation of the Eagles' management when the band
received bad reviews and how Stevie Nicks came up with the name for
her hit "Edge of Seventeen." ...Goldberg's affection for music, as
a fan, is also always palpable."
-Richmond Times Dispatch
"Early in Bumping into Geniuses, a young Danny Goldberg
disqualifies himself as a music journalist on the grounds that he
loves rock n roll far too much to be anything like objective. That
was probably true then and it's probably true now...but that
doesn't mean that he can't write. This book renews my faith in the
music, confirms my suspicion of the business, and answers a lot
questions that I've always meant to ask Danny myself."
-Steve Earle
"Since I first met Danny Goldberg in 1970, he has had an honest
relationship with the music business. He believes in the
transcendent beauty and power of rock and roll and at the same time
has a unique perspective on the business which has presented and
preserved it. Danny writes about rock and roll with his
characteristic mix of intelligence, reverence and humor."
-Patti Smith
"In chronicling his remarkable rise from rock writer to
record-company chief, working with acts ranging from Led Zeppelin
to Nirvana, Danny Goldberg demonstrates that there's more to the
music business than just business."
-Kurt Loder, MTV
"A behemoth in the rock 'n' roll industry."
-Vanity Fair
"Goldberg tells of his adventures in the music business with
insight, humor and compassion."
-The Seattle Times
"An insightful behind-the-scenes view of the music industry from
1969 through 2004...Reading Bumping Into Geniuses is like
having a laminated backstage pass to the music business,
intertwined with a juicy slice of countercultural history."
-Paul Krassner, Los Angeles Times
"There's no doubt [Goldberg] loves the music business - lives, eats
and breathes it. His new book Bumping Into Geniuses is one of the
best on the subject."
-San Antonio Express-News
"Danny Goldberg chronicles the phases of his career - rock
journalist, record- company president, manager to musicians ranging
from Kurt Cobain to Warren Zevon - with the sort of candor few
record-biz execs would attempt....Admirably blunt, but also spiked
with tart humor."
-Entertainment Weekly
"[A] surprisingly excellent book, an engaging, droll and -
incandescent artistes to the contrary - largely demystifying look
at the evolution of the rock trade from Woodstock to grunge...There
is an elegiac quality to Bumping Into Geniuses." -The New York
Times Book Review
"Bumping Into Geniuses is such an important text for
2008...Goldberg's book presents a time when popular music really
mattered, when the authentic fed the commercial and the commercial
widened the scope of the authentic."
-Milwaukee Express News
"Goldberg summons up some fascinating anecdotes as he writes about
these performers with much honesty and compassion, bringing it all
back home."
-Publishers Weekly
"A good taste of life in the music biz...It's not only the tales
themselves that make Bumping Into Geniuses a great read; it's how
Goldberg tells the stories. You really get the feeling that he
loved every moment. He appears to have learned as much from his
minor setbacks as he did from his major successes."
-The Jewish Journal
"For readers wanting a look behind the curtain, Goldberg offers
valuable personal experience that only the music industry's elite
are equipped to share."
-The Hartford Courant
"For anyone interested in the rock and roll industry, or simply the
mores and temperaments of the musicians themselves, Bumping into
Geniuses is an incredible insider's tale."
-Vintage Guitar
"Goldberg is an industry icon... In Bumping Into Geniuses, [he]
explains how the essence of music changed from being about the
artistry to being about the business, but he also shares -- to the
best of his recollections -- insider stories about Jimmy Page's
drug haze, the irritation of the Eagles' management when the band
received bad reviews and how Stevie Nicks came up with the name for
her hit "Edge of Seventeen." ...Goldberg's affection for music, as
a fan, is also always palpable."
-Richmond Times Dispatch
"Early in Bumping into Geniuses, a young Danny Goldberg
disqualifies himself as a music journalist on the grounds that he
loves rock n roll far too much to be anything like objective. That
was probably true then and it's probably true now...but that
doesn't mean that he can't write. This book renews my faith in the
music, confirms my suspicion of the business, and answers a lot
questions that I've always meant to ask Danny myself."
-Steve Earle
"Since I first met Danny Goldberg in 1970, he has had an honest
relationship with the music business. He believes in the
transcendent beauty and power of rock and roll and at the same time
has a unique perspective on the business which has presented and
preserved it. Danny writes about rock and roll with his
characteristic mix of intelligence, reverence and humor."
-Patti Smith
"In chronicling his remarkable rise from rock writer to
record-company chief, working with acts ranging from Led Zeppelin
to Nirvana, Danny Goldberg demonstrates that there's more to the
music business than just business."
-Kurt Loder, MTV
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