Kirkus
"Goodman travels to Oz and dares to pull back the curtain--he finds both snake oil and genius." 12/01/1996New York Times Book Review
"Provides an excellent chronicle of rock's sad metamorphosis from a quasi-moral force into an unstoppable money machine." 03/02/1997 New York Times
"A sophisticated moral fable...and rare for a book of this kind, the musical analysis is as astute as the business reporting." Washington Post Book World
"Informative and infuriating, a story of the wild, the innocent, and the egomaniacal." New Yorker
"An enthralling history." 03/24/1997 Rapport
"Are art and business mutually exclusive terms?....After reading this volume on what is undoubtedly one of the nastiest industries--music--you will come to resounding agreement....Many of us can imagine the flesh-peddling and soul-selling which undoubtedly occurred within music's golden pillars, but here it's spread out on the page like freshly poured manure on a field." - Steve Rosen | 
