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Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince

Maybe someday

43

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

33/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Peter Ames Carlin

Publisher:

Henry Holt and Co.

Date:

January 19, 2021

A bestselling music biographer captures the rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of rock and roll, Warner Bros Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise.

What The Reviewers Say

David Kirby,
The Wall Street Journal
A captivating book by Peter Ames Carlin, veteran rock journalist and author of biographies of Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen. No one would have said so back in the 1970s, but the second word of the company’s title suggests correctly that more than one bro worked there.

Publishers Weekly
Music journalist Carlin relays in his characteristic colorful style how music mogul Mo Ostin built Warner Bros. Records into an industry leader.

Kirkus
The author of biographies of McCartney, Simon, and Springsteen delivers a fast-paced, overstuffed history of the storied record label.