Geoffrey Stokes (May 3, 1940 – September 12, 1995)[1] was an American journalist and author.
The Los Angeles Times considered it "the best piece of reportage on how the music biz processes its wayward art.
"[3] Robert Christgau called it "one of the best rock books ever written and the definitive account of how the music biz operates.
"[4] Kirkus Reviews wrote that it was a "deflating chronicle of 'the interplay between giant corporations' at the expense of the musicians and the music—once thought to be the harbinger of radical consciousness.
[6] The paper preferred it to Balls, Graig Nettles and Peter Golenbock's book about the same season.