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Hitmaker (2013)

by Tommy Mottola(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446585181 (ISBN13: 9780446585187)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: I was a Tommy Mottola fan as a kid, only because he was the manager for Daryl Hall & John Oates. I was stunned when he ended up being the head of CBS/Sony Music and even more surprised when he married Mariah Carey. I'm not a Mariah fan, but his side of the marriage was more interesting than I thought it would be--and less tacky than it could have been. Also fun to read about the changes in the music industry over the years (which is a favorite topic of mine for reading anyway). But I still most wanted insight into the early years of DH&JO and got that in spades. Read it in less than 48 hours and was completely engrossed. That's all I can ask of a book.
review 2: Tough call on this one. I enjoyed the first third of the book, basically right up until he meets... more Mariah Carey. After that it is all about artists I dislike, Mr. Mottola's "I told you so" attitude and playing the blame game. I especially took exception to his pronouncement that record stores (namely Tower) could've saved themselves by diverting all resources to online sales. He conveniently forgets that Sony and the rest were unwilling to license music downloads to record stores (just like eBook publishers are doing now to libraries). Without affordable and easy access to digital product, no record store website was going to compete in any significant way with Amazon or Napster. By the end I was ready to throw this book against a wall. Mr. Mottola may be Mr. Sensitive to his friends, but he comes across as Mr. Arrogant Narcissist too often in his narrative. less

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