The Music Never Stops: What Putting On 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic
by Peter Shapiro with Dean Budnick
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
Peter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of
his generation. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone
on to much bigger things, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas,
Philadelphia, and Nashville), the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester,
producing U2 3D, and promoting the Grateful Dead’s
fiftieth-anniversary tour (“Fare Thee Well”) featuring the Core Four and
Trey Anastasio . . . and so much more.
In The Music Never Stops,
Shapiro shares the inside story of how he became a power-house in the
music industry—an island in an increasingly consolidated landscape of
venues, ticketing, and touring—through the lens of fifty iconic
concerts. Along the way, readers gain insight into what it was like to
work with some of the most celebrated bands in modern music, including
not just the Grateful Dead and U2, but also Bob Dylan, Phish, Dave
Matthews Band, Al Green, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jason Isbell, Preservation
Hall Jazz Band, The Roots, Robert Plant, Leonard Cohen, and many more.
Featuring never-before-published back-stage anecdotes, insights, and
photographs of the biggest bands in the business and the concerts that
later became legendary, The Music Never Stops is a perfect guide for any-one who wants to understand the modern live music industry.
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