Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading : the underlined books are essential and are included free with full MBS members

Most of these books are UK based and need to be. There are many books listed in Amazon that are US based and can confuse rather than assist in your work. The US biz has a different set of rules.

Business Books

  1. Music The Business 5th Edition by Ann Harriso 2010 ISBN 978-0-7535-3958-3 £25
  2. All you need to know about Music Business by D.S. Passman UK ed. £18.99
  3. The Art of Music Publishing by Helen Gammons,2011 ISBN  978-0-240-52235-7 
  4. The Music Industry Handbook by Paul Rutter,2011 ISBN 978-0-415-58681-8    
  5.       {these last two titles,3&4 essential for the MMBE course}
  6. Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon  US only; 2002 £12.9
  7. Sonic Boom John Alderman Napster & P2P the future of Music 2001 £7.99
  8. Music & the Internet Revolution Conrad Mewton Forward by Alan McGee
  9. How to succeed in the Music Business, A Dann & J Underwood £9.95
  10. Music Management Bible ,ISBN 1-84492-025-9 £9.99
  11. Future of Music D Kusek & Gerd Leonhard  ISBN 0 87639 059 $22.95
  12. Future of the Music Business Steve Gordon ISBN 0 87930 844 3 June 2005 $16.95
  13. Net Blogs and Rock n Roll David Jennings ISBN 0 978 1 85788 398 5 2007 £14.99
  14. The Tour Book Andy Reynolds ISBN 0 13 978 59863 371 9 2008 $29.99
  15. The Unsigned Guide UK Ed 4 various contributors ISBN tbc  £25

Other Titles

  1. The Music Industry; by Patrik Wikstrom ISBN 978-0-7456-4390-8 £9.99
  2. Memoirs of a Geezer, by Jah Wobble  ISBN 978-1846687129£12.99
  3. The Long Player, by Travis Elborough ISBN 978-0-340-93411-1 £8.99
  4. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ISB 978-0-349-11346-3 £7.99
  5. Freak Onomics by S D Levitt & S J Dubner ISBN 978-0-14-101901-7 £9.99
  6. The Rise & Fall of EMI by Brian Southall ISBN 978-1-84772-244-7 £19.99
  7. Managers Guns Cash n R n R by S Overbury ISBN 978-1-84596-234-0£10.99
  8. Rip it Up Start Again by Simon Reynolds ISBN 0-571-21570-x £10.99
  9. Appetite for Self Destruciton by Steve Knopper ISBN 978-1-84737-136-2
  10. How soon is Now by Richard King 2012 ISBN 978-0-571-24390-7
  11. Music Success in Nine Weeks by Ariel Hyatt 2009 ISBN 978-0-9816331-1-4
  12. Musician’s Roadmap by Ariel Hyatt 2011 ISBN 978-0-9816331-3-8