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The Music Never Stops

What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic

by Peter Shapiro
Dean Budnick
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An engrossing and insightful memoir by Peter Shapiro, the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation
Peter Shapiro is perhaps the most notable independent concert promoter since Bill Graham. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone onto much bigger things, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Nashville), the Capitol Theatre in Portchester, producing U2 3D, and promoting the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary tour ("Fare Thee Well") featuring the Core Four and Trey Anastasio... and so much more.
In The Music Never Stops, Shapiro shares the inside story of how he became a tremendous powerhouse in the music industry—an island in an increasingly consolidated landscape of venues, ticketing and touring—through the lens of 50 of his most iconic concerts. Along the way, readers gain insight into what it was like to work with some of the most celebrated bands in modern music, including not just the Grateful Dead and U2, but also Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Al Green, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jason Isbell, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Roots, Robert Plant, and many more.
Featuring never-before-published back-stage anecdotes, insights, and photographs of the biggest bands in the business and the concerts that later became legendary, The Music Never Stops is a perfect guide for anyone who wants to understand the modern entertainment industry.

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    August 2, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781668605295
      • File size: 329592 KB
      • Duration: 11:26:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2022

      Concert promoters are seldom as famous as the events they produce, but Shapiro aims to correct this with an often-rambling story of how he promoted some of the biggest concerts and festivals of the past 25 years. Through an improbable series of events that began with making a Grateful Dead documentary while in college, Shapiro became the owner of Wetlands, a Manhattan music club, when he was only 23. He eventually used the experience he gained and the connections he made to develop the very successful Brooklyn Bowl clubs in Brooklyn, Las Vegas, and London, and New York's Capitol Theatre. Shapiro provides endless anecdotes--many about the Grateful Dead and Phish--but the stories often gloss over any real substance, feeling more like name dropping. More interesting is the backstage access and endless minutia involved with running music venues and putting on large scale events like the Lockn' Festival or 2008's U2 3D film. Shapiro has certainly accomplished a great deal in his field, but what seems like a rough primer on how to become a concert promoter feels more like a very self-indulgent memoir. VERDICT A diversion for completist Deadheads and fans of music festivals.--Peter Thornell

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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