I read balance sheets for a living and most rock stars have a sad one. The popular myth says platinum records buy mansions that stay bought, and the money from a number one single keeps compounding quietly somewhere until retirement. The ledger says otherwise. The ledger says the number one single paid for the tour bus, the tour bus ate the profit, and the profit that was left went to a recoupment clause nobody read out loud before signing.

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What’s Inside

• The Myth of the Platinum Mattress
• The Touring Ledger
• Session Musicians and the Union That Forgot Them
• The 360 Deal
• The Manager’s Cut
• Catalog for Cash
• The Pension That Never Vested
• Merch, Masters, and the Split Nobody Reads
• The Bankruptcy Files
• Building Your Own Pension Plan