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Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
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About this book
Howard Bloom—called "the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known" by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull—is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock-and-roll legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Queen, Kiss, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, Chaka Khan, and one hundred more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me. Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me is Bloom's story—the strange tale of a scientific expedition into the dark underbelly of science and fame where new myths and movements are made.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Joan Jett
- 1. Michael Jackson Is Dead
- 2. Confessions of a Musical Klutz
- 3. Hunting the Gods Inside
- 4. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties
- 5. The Einstein Imperative
- 6. A Tale of Two Hormones—A Brief History of Pop
- 7. Inventing the Heavy-Metal Magazine
- 8. The Kennedy Assassination, the Watergate Break-in, and, Well, Ummm, Me . . . Sort Of
- 9. How Vince Furnier Became Alice Cooper
- 10. The Case of the Headless Record Company
- 11. You Fucking Nun . . . Stephanie Mills, Napoleon, and The Wiz
- 12. Dot Records and Country Crossover—Breaking Out of the Bible Belt
- 13. Blood in the Corridors
- 14. ZZ Top—Taking Texas to the World
- 15. The Birth of Disco—Firemen Come Out of the Closet
- 16. Ralph MacDonald—The Man with Atomic Clock Fingers
- 17. Working Miracles—Saturday Night Fever
- 18. Chris Blackwell and Betty Davis—The Man Who Made Reggae
- 19. Buddha Records—The Face Drained by the Mob
- 20. The Secret Policeman’s Ball—Planting Amnesty International
- 21. Genesis—The Band That Wouldn’t Talk
- 22. Peter Gabriel—The Rocker Who Got Computers Right
- 23. The Police—Punk and the Dad Who Co-Founded the CIA
- 24. Al Green and Cream Records—The Mecca of Memphis
- 25. Soul and Passion Points—Meet the Geese Who Fall in Love With, Well, With You
- 26. Supertramp—Escaping the Industrial Nightmare
- 27. Simon and Garfunkel Reunite
- 28. The Man Who Bit the Head Off a Bat—Ozzy Osbourne
- 29. Joan Jett—The Story of the Singing Fist
- 30. Lessons from Joan Jett—Power Moms
- 31. REO Speedwagon—The House That Slid Into a Better Neighborhood
- 32. Styx—The Man Who Saw the Future
- 33. Queen, Soul, South America
- 34. Bob Marley—Turning Dying Into Living
- 35. Earth, Wind, and Fire—the Path to Prince
- 36. Prince
- 37. Prince’s Puppets
- 38. Purple Rain
- 39. Rap—Shit All Over Your Face
- 40. John Mellencamp—Hurt So Good
- 41. Bob Guccione Jr.—The Slaughter of the Hutu and the Tutsis
- 42. How MTV Came to Be
- 43. Billy Idol—The Client Who Almost Died
- 44. Billy Joel—Dumbed Down by Love . . . and by Christie Brinkley
- 45. Lionel Richie—I Failed
- 46. Bette Midler and the Talking Dog
- 47. The Stars I Could Not Grok
- 48. The PMRC—The Witches of Washington
- 49. Who Killed Michael Jackson?
- 50. Michael Jackson’s Sexual Crucifixion
- 51. Perceptual Imprisonment
- 52. Sickness—The Blade of CFS
- Notes