Never Say No to a Rock Star: In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...

By Glenn Berger

Book Overview

What does it cost to spend twenty years making yourself invisible so that someone else's genius can shine? At seventeen, Glenn Berger walked into New York's legendary A&R Studios and learned the first rule of surviving inside a world of genius: disappear. Make yourself indispensable by making yourself invisible. Anticipate every demand before it is spoken. Never say no. Never take up space. Let the music get made. For twenty years, he did exactly that. Under the volatile brilliance of Phil Ramone, he was present for some of the most important recordings of the twentieth century: Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, and sessions with Sinatra, Jagger, Bette Midler, and James Brown. He was good at his invisibility. Extraordinarily good. But invisibility has a cost. And in the years that followed, when Berger left the music world to become a psychotherapist, he began to understand what that cost had been. Not just for himself. For anyone who has ever given their best years to something larger than themselves and emerged on the other side asking: who am I without this? What was it all for? Is it too late to find o

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943156085
• ISBN13: 9781943156085
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Schaffner Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"