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Platinum Logic
In this business you meet the nicest people money can buy...
Nathan Chasen started with nothing. He was smart enough to build himself an empire in the music business - but is he tough enough to keep it?
PLATINUM LOGIC is the unforgettable saga of the rise and fall of a rock and roll dynasty, of the appetites and obsessions of the family who made MOM Records the biggest independent label in the world and of the stars they used to do it.
An epic story spanning thirty years and three generations, uncovering a world of deals and dollars, headlines and white lines, success and scandal.
PLATINUM LOGIC is deservedly the most famous novel about the music business ever written.
This Rock & Roll novel tells "the story of platinum blond Candy Odell...as she soars to stardom with MOM records.... The novel "captures the greed of the moguls, the madness and money, splendor and squalor of a world built on high decibels and higher stakes. "
"I loved every raw and raunchy word of it." Jackie Collins.
"Well written and moral. An exceptional talent." Ian Cranna (The Face)
Nathan Chasen started with nothing. He was smart enough to build himself an empire in the music business - but is he tough enough to keep it?
PLATINUM LOGIC is the unforgettable saga of the rise and fall of a rock and roll dynasty, of the appetites and obsessions of the family who made MOM Records the biggest independent label in the world and of the stars they used to do it.
An epic story spanning thirty years and three generations, uncovering a world of deals and dollars, headlines and white lines, success and scandal.
PLATINUM LOGIC is deservedly the most famous novel about the music business ever written.
This Rock & Roll novel tells "the story of platinum blond Candy Odell...as she soars to stardom with MOM records.... The novel "captures the greed of the moguls, the madness and money, splendor and squalor of a world built on high decibels and higher stakes. "
"I loved every raw and raunchy word of it." Jackie Collins.
"Well written and moral. An exceptional talent." Ian Cranna (The Face)
509 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Tony Parsons
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Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.
He is the author of the multi-million selling novel, Man and Boy (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983), before he found mainstream success by focussing on the tribulations of thirty-something men. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife (2003), The Family Way (2004), Stories We Could Tell (2006), My Favourite Wife (2007), Starting Over (2009) and Men From the Boys (2010). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the rising popularity of 'Chick Lit'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Par...
Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.
He is the author of the multi-million selling novel, Man and Boy (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983), before he found mainstream success by focussing on the tribulations of thirty-something men. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife (2003), The Family Way (2004), Stories We Could Tell (2006), My Favourite Wife (2007), Starting Over (2009) and Men From the Boys (2010). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the rising popularity of 'Chick Lit'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Par...
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September 9, 2019
I read this book 5 or 6 times in the 80's it was a favorite. Recently bought a copy off Ebay to read it again. Why? Tony Parsons was a British Rock & Roll journalist when he wrote this. All the thinly veiled inspirations for the characters were people I was obsessed with or at least recognized in fictionalized storylines. Nathan Chasen is Phil Spector, Trilbee Chasen is Ronnie Spector, Ahmet Abbas is Ahmet Ertegun, Deuce Berner is DAVID BOWIE (that's the real hook for me), Candy Odell is Cherie Currie, Brooke Lola Wanda Ricki are the rest of the Runaways, creepy Felix is Kim Fowley. Fun cameos by a Mick Jagger character along with Scarlett (Bianca Jagger) & the "Leggy Texan" (Jerry Hall), hilariously Dick Steele is Rod Stewart, Governor Deacon is Jerry Brown. Brief mention Dina Nelson is anti-gay activist Anita Bryant and, new realization, John D. Walsh might be Donald Trump ick. Everyone is getting drunk and/or high on speed, cocaine, & heroin and having sleazy sex. Some bad stuff happens but fame and/or karma triumphs.
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