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Beschreibung
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
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
Über den Autor
Glenn Berger, PhD was for many years in the 1970s and 80s a recording assistant and later engineer/producer for the recording studio A&R Studios. After 20 years in the music business, Glenn became a psychotherapist. Excerpts from his memoir have been published in Esquire, Rolling Stone, and SOS Magazine. He lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: None
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781943156085
ISBN-10: 1943156085
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Berger, Glenn
Zusammengestellt: Collins, Judy
Hersteller: Schaffner Press, Inc.
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Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Glenn Berger
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,455 kg
Artikel-ID: 138176687