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How do you make a song a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make $millions? Read The Song Machine, and find out
John Seabrook has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1993. The author of several books including Nobrow, he has taught narrative non-fiction writing at Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Revelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details
*Eric Schlosser, author of 'Fast Food Nation'*
As addictive as its subject
*Sunday Times*
A gripping investigation of modern hitmaking… Seabrook’s writing is
as sleek and swift as a dolphin
*New Statesman*
This is a fascinating tale about an amazing phenomenon
*Walter Isaacson, author of 'Steve Jobs'*
Seabrook subtly explores not only the insides of a song, but how a
song gets inside us
*Observer*
Revealing, frightening, funny and unsettling
*Roddy Doyle*
Seabrook’s book takes the reader into a hidden world behind some of
the most high-profile cultural products of the era
*Guardian*
A highly engaging narrative
*Economist*
Weaving its way through two-and-a-half decades, one of The Song
Machine’s greatest achievements is to situate the pop song within a
shifting matrix of technological evolution, diminishing revenue
streams, and warring egos
*Independent*
Seabrook takes us on a lucid and well-researched tour of the places
where modern hits are created
*Literary Review*
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