Serving the Servant

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062861670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt’s side as manager, and close friend. Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close family, friends, and former bandmates, Serving the Servants sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servants is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought—one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.

Bumping Into Geniuses

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592403707
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
A giant of the music industry grants an all-access pass to the world of rock and roll, with mesmerizing stories of thirty-five years spent working with legends from Led Zeppelin, to Stevie Nicks, to Nirvana. Danny Goldberg has been a hugely influential figure in the world of rock and roll. He did PR for Led Zeppelin; he managed the career of Nirvana; he ran Atlantic Records, Mercury Records, and Warner Bros. Records; he launched Stevie Nicks’s solo career. In Bumping into Geniuses, Goldberg shares his stories about performers who represent a broad and powerful portion of the psychic real estate of the rock and roll kingdom: Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, KISS, Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, Hole, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle, Led Zeppelin, and more. But there’s more to this story than just Goldberg’s varied career. It’s also a look at the industry itself: a business that was neither the romantic vehicle for self-expression that its most naive fans imagined, nor the purely crass money machine depicted by its most cynical critics. It was complex and chaotic—a mixture of art and commerce, idealism and selfishness—and sometimes, rock’s most gifted and influential musicians were able to transcend it all. For anyone interested in the rock and roll industry, or simply the mores and temperaments of the musicians themselves, Bumping into Geniusesis an incredible insider’s tale that only Goldberg could tell.

Of Grunge and Government

Author: Krist Novoselic
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617752231
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review). A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s story of how during his years with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, the band made a point of playing benefits—the Rock for Choice show, a concert for gay rights, a fundraising gig for the Balkan Women’s Aid Fund—and how in the ensuing years he has dedicated himself to being a good citizen and participating in American democracy. In this book he shares stories about making music and making a statement—as well as inspiring ideas for anyone who wants to advance progressive causes, to become a more active part of the community, and to make sure our votes count and our voices are heard.

Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617759872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
A deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign, including brand-new interviews with some of the major players. “A cleareyed overview of the modern interaction of culture and politics.” —Kirkus Reviews Bloody Crossroads 2020 takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in America’s political culture in the year of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe Biden. Although there existed a decades-old tradition of “liberal Hollywood,” Trump’s ascension to the presidency in 2016 triggered an unprecedented level of engagement by artists and performers. Within days of the 2016 election, a critical mass of entertainers, from teenagers to the last survivors of the World War II generation—blockbuster movie stars, art-film auteurs, Broadway dramatists, comedians, and musicians from the worlds of classical, country, pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop—all seemed to have heard the tom-tom beat of resistance at the same moment and amplified a moral alternative to Trumpism. That level of engagement intensified with rare passion and purpose in the period of 2020 chronicled in Bloody Crossroads 2020—the Democratic primaries, the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the conviction of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, and the 2020 general election campaign—culminating in Trump’s failed insurrection. Exhaustively researched, Bloody Crossroads 2020 draws from brand-new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Rosanne Cash, David Simon, Adam McKay, Chuck D, David Corn, Mandy Patinkin, and many more. It also explores the important political activities of entertainers like Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes. Bloody Crossroads 2020 expertly dissects and celebrates how the empowering actions of artists and entertainers helped a record turnout of everyday citizens realize a triumphant 2020 election.

Come As You Are

Author: Michael Azerrad
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307833739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
The definitive biography of the revolutionary band Nirvana and its star-crossed frontman Kurt Cobain, hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first [book] to comprehensively tell the band’s tale from Aberdeen, Wash., to world domination” “Amazingly raw and candid . . . an unsparing and extremely honest depiction of the group’s highly tumultuous history . . . Come As You Are is as good as rock bios get.”—Billboard “Just tell the truth. That’ll be better than anything else that’s been written about me.”—Kurt Cobain Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging Generation X. Come As You Are is the close-up, intimate story of Nirvana—the only book with exclusive in-depth interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic, and Dave Grohl, as well as friends, relatives, former bandmembers, and associates—now updated to include a final chapter detailing the last year of Kurt Cobain's life, before his tragic suicide in April 1994. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, Come As You Are is an essential document not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the 1990s.

LIFE Remembering Kurt Cobain

Author: The Editors of Life
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
ISBN: 1683300335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
LIFE Magazine remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

In Search of the Lost Chord

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785782967
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
' Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' Ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. ' Weaves together rollicking, rousing, wonderfully colourful and disparate narratives to remind us how the energies and aspirations of the counterculture were intertwined with protest and reform ... mesmerising.' The Nation It was the year that saw the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. The year of the Summer of Love and LSD; the Monterey Pop Festival and Black Power; Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance and Martin Luther King Jr's public opposition to war in Vietnam. On its 50th anniversary, music business veteran Danny Goldberg analyses 1967, looking not only at the political influences, but also the spiritual, musical and psychedelic movements that defined the era, providing a unique perspective on how and why its legacy lives on today. Exhaustively researched and informed by interviews including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Gil Scott-Heron, In Search of the Lost Chord is the synthesis of a fascinating and complicated period in our social and countercultural history that was about so much more than sex, drugs and rock n roll.

Cobain Unseen

Author: Charles R. Cross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340977262
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first authorised, illustrated biography of Kurt Cobain is a treasure trove packed with rare material, inserts, and keepsakes.

Recordando a Kurt Cobain

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: Alianza Editorial
ISBN: 8491818448
Category : Music
Languages : es
Pages : 276

Book Description
A comienzos de 1991, el mánager musical Danny Goldberg aceptó hacerse cargo de Nirvana, uno de los muchos grupos de rock de la escena musical "underground" de Seattle. En ese momento, Danny no tenía ni idea de que el líder de la banda, Kurt Cobain, se convertiría en un icono de la cultura popular con un legado a la altura del de John Lennon o Elvis Presley. Danny trabajó con Kurt entre 1990 y 1994, los últimos cuatro años de vida del cantante. Fue testigo del éxito estratosférico de "Nevermind", que convirtió a Nirvana en la banda de rock más célebre del momento; asistió al encuentro y posterior boda de Kurt con la inestable pero brillante Courtney Love; al nacimiento de su hija, Frances Bean y, finalmente, a la lucha de Kurt contra la adicción a la heroína, que acabó en un devastador suicidio. Danny Goldberg ofrece en "Recordando a Kurt Cobain" un retrato del líder de Nirvana único e incomparable, solo al alcance de alguien que lo trató como productor, compañero y amigo íntimo. Goldberg resucita recuerdos no publicados hasta la fecha, indaga en sus archivos personales y recupera entrevistas a familiares, amigos y compañeros de banda, para explorar la inmensa creatividad y brillantez que Kurt Cobain proyectó sobre su música, la increíble mezcla de compasión, rebeldía, feminismo y ambición que reunía, y el legado que forjó con su particular visión del punk-rock.

Serving the servant

Author: Danny Goldberg
Publisher: Harper Collins Italia
ISBN: 8858997018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : it
Pages : 261

Book Description
Il venticinquesimo anniversario della morte di Kurt Cobain. Una nuova prospettiva su una delle icone del nostro tempo. L’unico libro scritto da qualcuno che lo conosceva. All’inizio del 1991, il famoso manager musicale Danny Goldberg accettò nella sua scuderia i Nirvana, una nuova band acclamata dalla scena musicale underground di Seattle. Non aveva idea che il leader della band, Kurt Cobain, sarebbe diventato un’icona della cultura pop e del mondo della musica, e che la sua fama avrebbe eguagliato quella di John Lennon, Michael Jackson o Elvis Presley. Danny ha lavorato con Kurt dal 1990 al 1994, il periodo più importante della vita di Cobain. Questi anni fondamentali hanno visto il successo stratosferico di Nevermind, l’album che ha trasformato i Nirvana nella rock band di maggior successo al mondo e reso noti a tutti termini come grunge; l’incontro e il matrimonio di Kurt con la brillante ma volubile Courtney Love e la nascita della loro figlia, Frances Bean; e, infine, la lotta pubblica di Kurt contro la dipendenza, che si concluse con un suicidio devastante che avrebbe cambiato per sempre la storia del rock. Per tutto il tempo, Danny, manager e amico intimo di Kurt, si schierò dalla sua parte. Attingendo ai ricordi personali di Goldberg, a documenti mai resi pubblici e a interviste con i familiari, gli amici e gli ex compagni di Kurt, Serving the Servant Ricordando Kurt Cobain, dal titolo di uno dei pezzi più iconici e famosi, getta una luce completamente nuova su questi anni critici senza indugiare sulla comune ossessione per l’angoscia e la depressione che apparentemente guidavano Kurt. Questo libro si concentra invece sul suo genio, la sua compassione, la sua ambizione e l’eredità che ha lasciato e che dura da decenni, un tempo ben più lungo della sua stessa carriera. Danny Goldberg esplora ciò che su Kurt Cobain risuona ancora oggi, anche per una generazione che non era ancora nata al momento della sua morte. E nel farlo, ci offre il ritratto di un’icona indimenticabile.