RUN-OUT GROOVE:: Inside Capitol's 1980s Hits & Stiffs

By Dave Morrell

Music industry vet Dave Morrell continues to chronicle his charmed, label-hopping career in Run-Out Groove: Inside Capitol's 1980s Hits & Stiffs. After a short interview - "Do you smoke pot?" "Yeah? You're hired." - the 26-year-old Beatle fan finds himself helming Capitol Records' East Coast FM promotion efforts and rubbing shoulders with Paul, George, Ringo and Yoko. Struggling to adapt to changing musical tastes, a succession of verbally abusive promo bosses pour big bucks into independent promotion firms (the new payola) to hype singles that ultimately tank. They nearly fumble hits from newcomers Duran Duran and Crowded House. One boss has a cattle prod, another favors sledgehammers. It's the 80's - decades before bigwigs get canned for creating toxic work cultures. Moments of joy offset the madness - a chance encounter with Lennon, ecstatic about Double Fantasy, rescuing the Plasmatics from a surly Poughkeepsie diner crowd, shopping for womenswear with Duran Duran, surviving the Jersey post-Iron Maiden show riot, visiting CBGBs with an unsigned Cyndi Lauper, giving Michael Jackson Liverpool sightseeing tips and retrieving Great White after a 3 a.m. drug deal. Through it all, Morrell plays by his own rules: PLAY LOUD...HAVE FUN!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B088N4XZG8
• ISBN13: 9798623742681
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"