Danny Goldberg has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 18 ratings. The most-rated is Serving the Servant.
Serving the Servant
Summary
On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time - and the only book written by someone who knew him. In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt’s side as manager and close friend. Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close family, friends, and former bandmates, Serving the Servants sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servants is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought - one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.
©2019 Danny Goldberg (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
In Search of the Lost Chord
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Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school. It is, he writes in the introduction, "an attempt at trying to remember the culture that mesmerized me, to visit the places and conversations I was not cool enough to have been a part of." It is also a refreshing and new analysis of the era; by looking at not only the political causes, but also the spiritual, musical, and psychedelic movements, Goldberg provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today. 1967 was the year of the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, among many others. In addition to the thriving music scene, 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love, the year that millions of now-illegal LSD tabs flooded America. Muhammad Ali was convicted of avoiding the draft; Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly opposed the war in Vietnam. Stokely Carmichael championed Black Power. Israel won the Six-Day War, and Che Guevara was murdered. It was the year that hundreds of thousands of protesters vainly attempted to levitate the Pentagon. It was the year the word "hippie" peaked and died, and the Yippies were born.
©2017 Danny Goldberg (P)2017 Tantor
Serving the Servant
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All'inizio del 1991, il famoso manager musicale Danny Goldberg accettò nella sua scuderia i Nirvana, una nuova band acclamata dalla scena musicale underground di Seattle. Non aveva idea che il leader della band, Kurt Cobain, sarebbe diventato un'icona della cultura pop e del mondo della musica, e che la sua fama avrebbe eguagliato quella di John Lennon, Michael Jackson o Elvis Presley. Danny ha lavorato con Kurt dal 1990 al 1994, il periodo più importante della vita di Cobain. Questi anni fondamentali hanno visto il successo stratosferico di Nevermind, l'album che ha trasformato i Nirvana nella rock band di maggior successo al mondo e reso noti a tutti termini come grunge; l'incontro e il matrimonio di Kurt con la brillante ma volubile Courtney Love e la nascita della loro figlia, Frances Bean; e, infine, la lotta pubblica di Kurt contro la dipendenza, che si concluse con un suicidio devastante che avrebbe cambiato per sempre la storia del rock. Per tutto il tempo, Danny, manager e amico intimo di Kurt, si schierò dalla sua parte. Attingendo ai ricordi personali di Goldberg, a documenti mai resi pubblici e a interviste con i familiari, gli amici e gli ex compagni di Kurt, Serving the Servant. Ricordando Kurt Cobain, dal titolo di uno dei pezzi più iconici e famosi, getta una luce completamente nuova su questi anni critici senza indugiare sulla comune ossessione per l'angoscia e la depressione che apparentemente guidavano Kurt. Questo libro si concentra invece sul suo genio, la sua compassione, la sua ambizione e l'eredità che ha lasciato e che dura da decenni, un tempo ben più lungo della sua stessa carriera. Danny Goldberg esplora ciò che su Kurt Cobain risuona ancora oggi, anche per una generazione che non era ancora nata al momento della sua morte. E nel farlo, ci offre il ritratto di un'icona indimenticabile.
©2019 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A.Tradotto da Alessandra Rotilio (P)2020 HarperCollins Italia S.p.A