Dan Kennedy

Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays with his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaiing results. You trust for his own well-being that he doesn't bump into some of the ex-colleagues he describes in such hilariously unflattering detail too soon

'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... [a] high-spirited obituary for the record business

Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business will ever be the same

If he weren't so self-deprecating, Kennedy might come off as a jerk. But he's just as hard on himself and, besides, he's funny. Super funny

A droll antidote to the standard music-biz memoir

Imagine a love child born of The Office and High Fidelity. With Knocked Up as the slacker godfather. That captures Dan Kennedy's memoir Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, his amazingly funny yet perceptive look at rock music and big corporations in crisis

...pitch-perfect... a brilliant, hysterical and insightful look at what happens when truly creative people try to blend into a Banana Republicized mediocracy. The author makes it clear, in laugh-out-loud fashion, that the lid was shut on the coffin of music business dreams some time ago, we've just delayed the burial

How I Tried to Stop Caring about Music and Learn to Love Corporate Rock

How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music? Before you answer, we'll throw in a plush office, a hip assistant and a bottomless expense account? 
 
Dan Kennedy thinks all of his dreams have come true at once. In reality, he's just walked into a nightmarish episode of The Office. From his first assigment - creating a campaign celebrating 25 years of Phil Collins' love songs - he knows he's in way over his head, and from the looks of others around the boardroom, he's not alone. 
 
With cameos by ageing rock stars, dinosaur music-biz kingpins, hip-hop thugs and Iggy Pop, Rock On is an achingly funny tale of rock and roll, office life, and what happens when the suits take control.

Dan Kennedy

Praise for Rock On

Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays with his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaiing results. You trust for his own well- ...

'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... ...

Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business wi ...

Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays with his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaiing results. You trust for his own well- ...

'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... ...

Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business wi ...

Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays with his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaiing results. You trust for his own well- ...

'[A] droll, downbeat account of life in the belly of the corporate rockbeast... His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles... ...

Rock On is a succession of gently mordant vignettes, with hilariously spot-on asides about media image-making, music-biz hierarchies and sensitive singer-songwriters. Neither Kennedy nor the music business wi ...

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