Payola!

by Gerry Cagle

The author, who is an award winning programme director in the radio industry has used this medium as a backdrop for this gripping novel. The story centres around Bobby Holiday, Vice president in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0828319251
• ISBN13: 9780828319256
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Branden Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

All true, but written as fiction

Anyone who has worked in radio, in particular during the 60s or 70s & 80s, can attest that most of the scenarios played out in this novel are in fact, true. The book is written convincingly, grippingly and is paced so that it quickly becomes a page turner. Cage has written what he knows and this book displays that knowledge. The underbelly of the radio and records world is not pretty and the glamourous facade is a tempting, duplicitous entity. Knowing this makes this book a should-read for anyone even mildly curious about the relationships between radio and record executives, enabling the discovery of how an artist or song really breaks on the radio.

So True!

As a veteran of radio I LOVED this book! Mr. Cagle has captured and distilled every jock I have ever worked with into a few key characters in the book. . .have the names been changed to protect the "innocent?" Several riveting scenes. . .should be a movie! Bravo, Mr. Cagle. . .please write some more.

fact or fiction?

Anyone who knows the radio/record business,knows this is not fiction.The characters are all people who really exist.Great book.