Book description
How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record
label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop
music? Before you answer, we'll throw in a plush office, a hip
assistant and a bottomless expense account.
When Dan Kennedy is hired by a major label he thinks he has been
handed a pass to the secret kingdom of rock and roll. In reality, he
has walked into an episode of The Office. Whether directing a
gangsta rapper's video or battling his better judgement to create a
campaign celebrating twenty-five years of Phil Collins' love songs,
he's in way over his head. And from the looks of those around the
boardroom, he's not alone. Cameos by aging pop stars, dinosaur
music-biz kingpins, hip-hop thugs, Iggy Pop and others make up the
cast of this brilliant power ballad to rock and roll, office life and
all the wage slaves who've done their damndest to hide from Human
Resources when the axe falls.
If you have ever bought a record, worked in an office, tried to get
into a creative industry or suspected that some things are not all
they're cracked up to be, Rock On will make you laugh more than
you thought possible.
Dan Kennedy is a regular contributor to
McSweeney's
and his work has appeared in
The Best of
McSweeney's
Humor Category
,
Mountain Man Dance Moves: The
McSweeney's
Book of Lists
,
GQ
magazine and other publications. He lives in New York.
