Since its launch in 1975, Ticketmaster has come to achieve such market dominance that some critics have denounced the company as an unlawful monopoly. Yet its path to the top was far from inevitable. Ticket Masters is based on first-person interviews with the key players and describes the behaviour of many world-renowned musicians from the righteous to the rapacious. With access to promoters, musicians and execs alike, Ticket Masters offers new riffs and wrinkles on a saga of ambition in the entertainment industry.

Reviews

"Budnick and Baron did a tremendous job in chronicling the history of the U.S. and Canadian concert business and how the business models have changed. . . . "Ticket Masters" is an excellent book for music historians and business geeks alike." --www.boomerocity.com