The Gospel According to Luke
Lukather, S., & Rees, P. (2018). The Gospel According to Luke. London: Constable.
ISBN 9781472126429 1472126424
Review
This is a book my cousin Rob Rowe handed to me as I walked out the door from his place on the way to the gym one morning. I've never been a fanboy of the band TOTO or the style of music it seems to be remembered for. I've seen some videos of Steve Lukather annoying his neighbours that amused me; but made me glad I'm not living next door to him. I've read a number of columns he's written for various guitar magazines, yet never thought I'd go out and buy a book if he wrote it.
When I got into The Gospel According to Luke I could hardly put it down. Paul Rees is a music journalist and the cowriter/ghostwriter for a number of music biographies: Rees does a fantastic job of eliciting some of the amazing details of Steve Lukather's life from a young age, as a guitar prodigy, in and out of bands, and as a musician performing for LA's famed Wrecking Crew.
I wish more music bio's would read like this... I highly recommend it.
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The Mansion on the Hill
Goodman, F. (1997). The Mansion on the Hill. New York: Times Books - Random House.
ISBN 0812921135 9780812921137
Review
The first long-playing 12" record I remember buying was Joe Cocker's career-pinnacle live performances captured on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen double album. I'd just been paid at my new part-time job selling radios and stereos in a department store; for good measure I picked up Cocker Happy as well before the store closed for the weekend.
That was around 1975. Forty-seven years later I find out that the release of Mad Dogs was in support of a promotional formula used by a USA recording industry heavyweight: Dee Anthony would get his artist (or band, such as Humble Pie) to build credibility by touring extensively (possibly as a follow-up to a studio album) then release a live album (or double album, in the case of Mad Dogs) and take it from there (Goodman, p.308).
Jon Landau tried to emulate that methodology with Bruce Springsteen following the release of Born to Run (Goodman, p.296). If you'd like to know how that went, I'd suggest you try and get hold of a copy of The Mansion on the Hill and find out, yourself. You see, Landau was a celebrated writer for Rolling Stone Magazine; but he never mentioned his conflict of interest as a music promoter and manager when he reviewed artists that he managed. Just as well the only article by Landau in my copy of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll (1976) book (pp198-201) is about Otis Redding (Landau is reported by Goodman to have said of Redding that "...his personal credo was 'make that buck'..." (Goodman, p.303).
The copy of The Mansion on the Hill I saw a number of times at a local thrift store, but left on the shelf because I wasn't certain its subject matter would really interest me. Once I picked it up and began to read it I found it hard to put down. A lot of information - names, relationships, artists, recordings, events - comes thick and fast; it never stops being informative. I've passed my copy on but will look forward to getting it back as I think it will need to be read again, in time. It's been a highlight read among a couple of real rubbish music books I've read in the last few months.
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Goodman, F. (1997). The Mansion on the Hill. New York: Times Books - Random House.
ISBN 0812921135 9780812921137
Review
The first long-playing 12" record I remember buying was Joe Cocker's career-pinnacle live performances captured on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen double album. I'd just been paid at my new part-time job selling radios and stereos in a department store; for good measure I picked up Cocker Happy as well before the store closed for the weekend.
That was around 1975. Forty-seven years later I find out that the release of Mad Dogs was in support of a promotional formula used by a USA recording industry heavyweight: Dee Anthony would get his artist (or band, such as Humble Pie) to build credibility by touring extensively (possibly as a follow-up to a studio album) then release a live album (or double album, in the case of Mad Dogs) and take it from there (Goodman, p.308).
Jon Landau tried to emulate that methodology with Bruce Springsteen following the release of Born to Run (Goodman, p.296). If you'd like to know how that went, I'd suggest you try and get hold of a copy of The Mansion on the Hill and find out, yourself. You see, Landau was a celebrated writer for Rolling Stone Magazine; but he never mentioned his conflict of interest as a music promoter and manager when he reviewed artists that he managed. Just as well the only article by Landau in my copy of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll (1976) book (pp198-201) is about Otis Redding (Landau is reported by Goodman to have said of Redding that "...his personal credo was 'make that buck'..." (Goodman, p.303).
The copy of The Mansion on the Hill I saw a number of times at a local thrift store, but left on the shelf because I wasn't certain its subject matter would really interest me. Once I picked it up and began to read it I found it hard to put down. A lot of information - names, relationships, artists, recordings, events - comes thick and fast; it never stops being informative. I've passed my copy on but will look forward to getting it back as I think it will need to be read again, in time. It's been a highlight read among a couple of real rubbish music books I've read in the last few months.
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