Leaving the Building - The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates (Forde Eamonn)(Pevná vazba)

It was 1977 when Colonel Tom Parker proclaimed "Elvis didn't die - the body did. This changes nothing." Ever since then, the management of artists' estates has become a huge business in its own right. Leaving the Building speaks to those charged with running the estates of major artists such as Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Jim Morrison, the Ramones, Miles Davis and Isaac Hayes as well as a range of smaller estates, music lawyers, record companies, archivists and more. The book explores in depth how they keep artists' legacies alive, what happens when battles erupt between heirs, why not leaving a will is still a common mistake, how archives are managed, how an estate must respond when a scandal engulfs it, why estates are increasingly being sold as the business becomes industrialised and how
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