Casablanca Story (Hardcover Book)

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 aproduct of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980, the landscap e of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, andno 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 DonnaSummer, the Village People, and funk master George Clinton and his circ us of freaks, Parliament Funkadelic, to the descent into the manic worldof disco, this book charts Bogart's meteoric success and eventual colla pse 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.