Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry (56 page)

Dozier, Lamont

Drake, Nick

Drake, Robert

Draper, Simon.
See also
Virgin Records

drug culture.
See
psychedelia and drug culture

Dury, Ian

Dyer, Frank

Dylan, Bob

albums

allies

Beatles’ acquaintance and introduction to marijuana

Columbia contracts

Geffen’s management of

move to New York and breakup of family

Nashville recordings

Newport Folk Festival electric set

prolific songwriting

retreat from public eye

singles

start of singing career

Eagles

Eastman, Lee

Easton, Edward

Easton, Eric

Edison, Thomas

disdain for radio

Edison Phonograph Company

patents

telegraphy and talking machine experiments

Edwards, Bernard

Eire Apparent

Eisenstein, Sergei

electronica

Elektra

Asylum merger

Butterfield Blues Band

company freaks

Doors and Jim Morrison

Love

marijuana culture

MC5

move to California

record store operations

Stooges

success

Warner Communications merger

Elektra/Asylum

Elliman, Yvonne

Ellington, Duke

Ellis, Terry

EMI Records

acquisitions

Beatles

British pop band sales figures

creation of

diversification into television

division and sale of

Island license deal

mean-spirited culture and staff resignations

Parlophone sublabel

rock ’n’ roll hits

Sex Pistols

Stiff distribution deal

England.
See also specific bands; specific individuals; specific labels

BBC

bisexual glam rock

class system

derision of Californian flower power

drug use by pop stars

economic decline

music-oriented television shows

offshore pirate-radio ships

popularity of bands in North

pub rock scene

punk

during Second World War

sixties fashion cult

synth-pop groups

taxation of stars’ revenue

theater tradition

Eno, Brian

Enthoven, David

Epic

Epstein, Brian

Epstein, Clive

Ertegun, Ahmet.
See also
Atlantic Records

Ertegun, Nesuhi

ethnic records market

Evening Standard

Factory Records

Fairport Convention

Faithfull, Marianne

Fallout Records and Skateboards

Faxon, Robert

Fayant, Frank

Ferdinand, Franz

Fields, Arthur

Fields, Danny

file-sharing and downloading

Fleetwood Mac

folk music

Folsey, George

Fontana

4AD

4th & B’way

Foxx, Inez & Charlie

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Franklin, Aretha

Fraser, Robert

Friesen, Gil

From Spirituals to Swing
concert

Fuqua, Harvey

Gabler, Milt

Gage, Kevin

Gaisberg, Fred

Gallagher, Bill

Gallagher, Rory

Garcia, Bob

Gaye, Marvin

Geffen, David

Asylum and Elektra/Asylum

in California drug culture

Crosby, Stills & Nash

DGC Records

Dylan, Bob

Eagles

Ertegun’s patronage

Geffen Records

impact on future of record deals

Lennon, John

management agency startup

Nirvana

Nyro, Laura

personal qualities

retirement and comeback

Roxy theater and On the Rox club

Summer, Donna

Warner Communications deals

Gennett

Giannini, Ferruccio

Gillespie, Dizzy

glam rock

Gleeson, Scoop

Gluck, Alma

Go Discs!

Goldmark, Peter

Gold Star studio

Goodman, Benny

Gordy, Anna and Gwen

Gordy, Berry

background and business plan

Motown

paternalism

songwriting

Gordy, Esther

Gottehrer, Richard

Grafonola

Graham, Bill

Gramophone

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

Grant, Peter

Graphophone

Grateful Dead

Gray, Elisha

Grease
(movie and soundtrack)

Great Depression

Green, Derek.
See also
A&M

Green, Peter

Greene, Al

Gretton, Rob

Grigsby-Grunow Company

Grossman, Albert

Grubman, Allen

Guinzberg, Tom

Guthrie, Woody

Hacienda

Hager, Fred

Haley, Bill

Halverson, Bill

Hamilton, Diane

Hammond, John.
See also
Columbia artists; Columbia/CBS

background

Basie, Count

Cohen, Leonard

Columbia posts

on commercial focus of record business

confidence in own judgment

disillusionment with record industry

Dylan, Bob

erudition and integrity

Franklin, Aretha

Goodman, Benny

Greenwich Village folk scene

Hampton, Lionel

Henderson, Fletcher

Holiday, Billie

jazz journalism

personal struggles

racial integration efforts

Seeger, Pete

Smith, Bessie

social justice ideals

From Spirituals to Swing
concert

Springsteen, Bruce

Vanguard jazz recordings

White, Josh

Hampton, Lionel

Handy, W. C.

Hannett, Martin

Haran, Ronnie

Hard Day’s Night, A
(movie)

Harris, Bob

Harris, Larry

Harris, Steve

Harris, William

Harrison, Sidney

Harry, Deborah

Harvey, Laurence

Haslam, Dave

Hayes, Tom

Heinemann, Jehuda Otto.
See also
Okeh

Hell, Richard

Helms, Suzanne

Henderson, Fletcher

Hendrix, Jimi

Henley, Don

Hentoff, Nat

Herald Tribune

Hester, Carolyn

hillbilly and country music

hip-hop

Holiday, Billie

Holland, Brian and Eddie

Holzman, Jac.
See also
Elektra

decision to produce rock music

on demise of singles format

embrace of marijuana culture

on Iggy Pop

on individual record man

on Jewish influence in record industry

on Mills as record man

on Newport festival audiences

Record Loft and Elektra label

relationship with artists

retirement plans

on Ross as head of Warner

on technology’s impact on record business

homosexuality

Hood, Sam

Hooper, Stanford

Hoover, Herbert

Hopkins, Ernest J.

Horn, Trevor

Horowitz, David

Hubbard, Gardiner

Hubbard, Mabel

Human League

Humble Pie

Hunting, Russell

Hyman, Eliot

Hynde, Chrissie

Immediate Records

Incredible String Band

In His Own Write
(Lennon)

Internet file-sharing and downloading

Isgro, Joe

Island Records

A&M alliance

core market

decline and collapse

Drake, Nick

dysfunction and absentee management

EMI license deal and restructuring

Fairport Convention

Faithfull, Marianne

financial problems

founding of

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Kid Creole & the Coconuts

London studio and office

Marley, Bob

Mott the Hoople

New Wave signatures

Palmer, Robert

reforms under Robinson’s management

Roxy Music

sale to PolyGram

sublabels

successes

Traffic

U2

Virgin distribution deal

iTunes Store

Jackson, Janet

Jackson, Michael

Jaeger, Art

Jagger, Mick.
See also
Rolling Stones

James, Billy

James, Dick

jazz

bebop

blues

dance craze

in England

evolution from entertainment to art

first record on Victor label

on Gennett label

historical link to folk music

as new urban culture

white audiences for

Jefferson, Blind Lemon

Jethro Tull

Jive

Jobs, Steve

Joel, Billy

John, Elton

Johnson, Eldridge Reeves.
See also
Victor/RCA Victor

Johnson, George

Johnson, Robert

Johnson, Tommy

Johnston, Bob

Jones, Brian

Jones, Grace

Jones, Jo

Jones, John Paul

Jones, Joseph

Jones, Mick

Jones, Peter

Jones, Quincy

Jones, Steve

Joplin, Janis

Joplin, Scott

Josephson, Barney

jukeboxes

Kallman, Craig

Kamins, Mark

Kapp, Jack.
See also
Decca Records

Kapralik, Dave

Keisker, Marion

Kelly, Dan

Kemp, Lindsay

Kenner, Chris

Keynote

Kid Creole & the Coconuts

King, B. B.

King Crimson

Kirkup, Martin

Kiss

Klein, Allen

Koenig, Rudolph

Kooper, Al

Krasnow, Bob

Krieger, Robby

Kristal, Hilly

Krivit, Danny

Krupa, Gene

Lambert, Kit

Landau, Jon

Landis, John

Larkin, Philip

Lauder, Andrew

Led Zeppelin

Lee, Arthur

Lee, Jeannette

Lennon, John.
See also
Beatles

Letts, Don

Levy, Alain

Levy, Morris

Lewis, Edward.
See also
Decca Records

Lewis, Jerry Lee

Lewis, Meade “Lux”

Liberty Records

Lieberson, Goddard.
See also
Columbia/CBS

Life
magazine

Lillywhite, Steve

Lippincott, Jesse

Livingston, Alan

Livingston, Bunny

LL Cool J

Lockwood, Joseph

Loewenstein, Rupert

Lomax, Alan

Lomax, John

London.
See
England

Lorillard, Elaine

Los Angeles.
See
California

Love, Mike

Love (band)

Lydon, John

Lynn, Vera

M., Boney

Macdonald, Thomas

Madness

Madonna

Maitland, Mike

Mamas & the Papas

Mamoudas, Victor

Manchester, William

Mancuso, David

Manzarek, Ray

Marconi, Guglielmo

Margereson, Dave

Marley, Bob

albums

CBS contract

death

Island contract

public perception of

singles

Wailers breakup and subsequent work

M/A/R/R/S

Marshall, Paul

Martha & the Vandellas

Martin, Barbara

Martin, George.
See also
EMI Records

AIR production company

background and EMI post

Beatles

on English class system

Epstein-managed bands

ethical integrity

“Theme One” composition

on Brian Wilson

Martin, Mary

Marvelettes

Mauro, Philip

MC5

MCA

McCartney, Paul

McClusky, Jeff

McCormack, John

McGhee, Howard

McGuinn, Roger

McGuinness, Paul

McLaren, Malcolm

Meehan, Tony

Meek, Joe

Meisel, Peter

Meisel, Trudy

Melrose, Lester and Walter

Mendes, Sergio

Mercer, Johnny

Meyers, Jerry

Miller, Daniel

Miller, Glenn

Miller, Mitch

Miller, Walter

Mills, Irving

Mills, Martin

minstrelsy

Mitchell, Joni

Moby

Monk, Thelonious

Monterey International Pop Festival

Moore, Scotty

Morgan, Derrick

Morley, Paul

Moroder, Giorgio

Morris, Doug

Morrison, Jim

Morrison, Van

Morse, William

Morton, Jelly Roll

Moss, Jerry.
See also
A&M

on A&M’s alliance with Island

creation of A&M

departure from PolyGram

on dramatic effect of English bands

on drug culture

on integrity in A&M culture

on Jewish influence in record industry

at Monterey Pop Festival

Motortown Revue
tour

Motown

Mottola, Tommy

Mott the Hoople

MTV

music industry.
See
record industry

Mute

My Fair Lady

NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)

Nash, Graham

Nash, Johnny

Nathan, Syd

Neal, Bob

Neuwirth, Bob

New Order

Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals

News of the World

Newsweek

Newton, Ashley

New Wave music

New York.
See also specific individuals; specific labels

dance scene

Great Migration of southern blacks to

Greenwich Village folk music clubs

specialist record stores

New York Dolls

New York Times