Bill Flanagan, Author . Penguin $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-59420-050-2
Flanagan's snarkily entertaining second novel (after A&R
) is a smorgasbord of colorful personalities and riotous events that would only be slightly less at-home on a reality TV show. Bobby Kahn—a hotshot young TV exec whose first big...
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Bill Flanagan, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (648p) ISBN 978-1-4391-4845-7
As in his previous novel, A&R
, MTV executive Flanagan presents a life in the music biz, this time in the form of a perhaps too-sprawling history of rock and roll and the men behind the scenes. In 1967, young attorney Jack Flynn ingratiates...
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Bill Flanagan, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $16.55 (472p) ISBN 978-0-8092-5153-7
Flanagan, who has written about music for Rolling Stone and the Boston Globe, and is executive editor of Musician magazine, has interviewed 28 singer-songwriters ""out of the rock tradition anteceded by Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, the tradition...
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Bill Flanagan, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $7.95 (129p) ISBN 978-0-8092-5152-0
Flanagan, executive editor of Musician magazine, humorously examines the impact of the Stooges on the CIA, the Catholic Church, Watergate, literature, art, music and etiquette. He exhibits fine satirical instincts, but the premise of his parody is...
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Bill Flanagan, Author Delacorte Press $22.95 (536p) ISBN 978-0-385-31154-0
Music journalist Flanagan (Written in My Soul) followed rock superstars U2 on the road, into the studio and into their private lives for three years to collect material for this authorized biography. It provides an interesting, if almost too...
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