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Here Comes The Night - The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues (Paperback)
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Here Comes The Night - The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues (Paperback)
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 I don't know where he's buried, but if I did I'd piss on his
grave." Â Jerry Wexler, best friend and mentor.Here Comes the
Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm
and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and
blues world of the early  60s, and the harrowing, ultimately
tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose
meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged
by rheumatic fever as a youth, doctors told Berns he would not live
to see twenty-one. Although his name is little remembered today,
Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era  Jerry Leiber and
Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil
Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, anyone who was anyone in New
York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to
the top of the pops  producer of monumental r&b classics,
songwriter of  Twist and Shout,"  My Girl Sloopy" and others.His
fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to muscle
Atlantic Records out of a partnership and intimidate new talents
like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison he signed to his record label,
only to drop dead of a long expected fatal heart attack, just when
he was seeing his grandest plans and life's ambitions frustrated
and foiled.
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