I read ledgers for a living, and the rock catalog business is the strangest asset class I have ever priced. For decades the story told to fans was simple: the label took the rights, the manager took a cut, and the artist got robbed somewhere in the small print. That story is comforting because it has a villain. It is also, for most of the deals in this book, wrong.

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What’s Inside

• The Bonds Bowie Sold
• How a Catalog Gets a Number
• Dylan Sells the Songs, Not Himself
• Inside the Fund That Bought Everyone’s Songs
• The Smaller Sales Nobody Priced the Same Way
• Springsteen Sells the Whole House
• The Deal That Got Rewritten in Public
• Why They Sell Now Instead of Later
• The Catalog Michael Jackson Bought and the One the Beatles Never Got Back
• What the Next Buyout Looks Like