Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group

Not only is this a wonderful and ambitious book by Cornyn & Scanlon, but it is also a great tool for young musicians because this book takes the mystery out of the record business. Cornyn has a wonderful appreciation for great stories, but he's also bright and is able to recount the stories behind the signings of artists and the whys in great detail. He also captures the energy and team effort of all of those Powers-That-Be... Read Full Review

LET ME 'fess up. This is a book I would kill to have written.It's a book I've been saying should be written for the lastten years a book, a huge book, about possibly the hippest,bravest, most nurturing record company rock'n'roll ever spawned. Now Stan Cornyn, a Warners "insider's insider" if ever there was one, has gone and done it with help from smart Rolling Stone vet Paul Scanlon. "The really important factor was that... Read Full Review

then you will definitely find this worth your time. I've been in the record biz for the last ten years and got an awful lot out of reading this - it tells the business story in an entertaining manner - it's about the personalities behind the music, but not as much about the hype (as much as it's possible to take hype out of anything about the entertainment industry). now with the record biz in a rough spell is a particularly... Read Full Review

EDITOR'S CHOICE Long-in-the-tooth music fans may remember those flippantly hilarious print ads Warner Bros. Records and its sister label Reprise used to run in the late '60s/early '70s. You could win a dream date with one of the plug-uglies in the Fugs, enter a Pigpen look-alike contest, or score a double-LP sampler for two bucks. Those campaigns were created by Stan Cornyn, a 30-plus-year Warner vet who, with Paul... Read Full Review

At age 44, and with an album collection of over 400 LP's, I have been an avid music fan since age 10, as a wide-eyed, curious kid in 1968. I have always wondered just how the record industry worked, besides what I have learned over the years. Stan Cornyn's new novel "Exploding", is everything I could have asked for and then some! This book is very well written, concise, and stuffed full of details only an insider such as Stan... Read Full Review