Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliography (p.447-449) and indexes.

Black Vinyl White Powder charts the fifty year history of the British music business. As a key player across the decades, Napier-Bell - who discovered Marc Bolan and managed amongst others The Yardbirds and Wham! - uses his contacts and personal experiences to tell the story of an industry that is like no other. Where bad behaviour is not only tolerated but encouraged, where drugs are sometimes as important as talent, where artists are pushed to their physical and mental limits in the name of profit and ego.