Peter Asher: A Life in Music

Peter Asher: A Life in Music is a comprehensive biography of Peter Asher,spanning over fifty years of modern music history. The author conducted numerous interviews with Asher,accessed his archives,and received input from over one hundred artists,friends,and colleagues to illustrate his career. The book provides insight into Asher's personality and working methodology,and includes previously unseen photographs. It also places his progress in context with the cultural and social events of the time. Asher's unique insider's view into the music business has earned him respect and success.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 15 January 2023
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history,Peter Asher: A Life in Music highlights every turn in Peter Asher's amazing career. Over a dozen years of research has gone into telling his story, with numerous interviews conducted with Asher, along with first-hand observations of him at work in various recording studios around Los Angeles. The author also had access to Asher's archives, which offered rare photographs and other career memorabilia to help illustrate this biography.

Over one hundred artists, friends, and colleagues agreed to be interviewed, and they help to provide insight into Asher's personality and working methodology. Included are singers Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Marianne Faithfull, Carole King, Kenny Loggins, Graham Nash, Aaron Neville, Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, JD Souther, and James Taylor; producers Lou Adler, Mike Curb, Richard Perry, Al Schmitt, and Sir George Martin; musicians Hal Blaine, Andrew Gold, Danny Kortchmar, Paul Shaffer, and Waddy Wachtel; and actors Kevin Kline and Robin Williams. Many of these participants also provided previously unseen photographs.

Asher was also one of the first producers to list the musicians that played on his sessions, realizing how important they were to the success of each project. These mini-portraits not only contribute to the telling of his story, they ultimately give the reader a history lesson on the last fifty years of popular music. Of course, Asher's life and work did not occur in a vacuum, and David Jacks places his progress in context with what was occurring in the culture that surrounded him, from the pervasive doldrums that America was experiencing right before the Beatles (and Peter and Gordon) exploded upon its shores to the civil rights tensions that surrounded the interracial.

Weight: 794g
Dimension: 233 x 160 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781493061211