Publisher's Synopsis
Now it can be told! The true behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s it ÊwasÊ the 1970s.ÞFrom 1974 to 1980 the landscape of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence and no person or company in that era was more emblematic of the times than Casablanca Records and its magnetic founder Neil Bogart. From his daring first signing of KISS through the discovery and superstardom of Donna Summer the Village People and funk master George Clinton and his circus of freaks Parliament Funkadelic to the descent into the manic world of disco this book charts Bogart's meteoric success and eventual collapse under the weight of uncontrolled ego and hype. It is a compelling tale of ambition greed excess and some of the era's biggest music acts.
