Name: Rebel With a Cause: The Black CEO Who Made Hits and History
Brand: Darcus Beese

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9781788706094signed

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Hardback

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-08-15

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Grantham Book Services Ltd.

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9781788706094

Hardback | Signed Copy

Artist

Darcus Beese

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Music

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Nine Eight Books

The must-read memoir from Darcus Beese - the UK's first black record company CEO and one of the greatest A&amp;Rs of his generation. From growing up as a teenager on the streets of West London to running one of the biggest record labels in the world in New York - this is a truly remarkable rags to riches tale.

Rebel With a Cause is the story of how a teenage apprentice hairdresser from Fulham worked his way up from teaboy to head one of the UK's biggest and most successful record labels, Island Records, signing and nurturing some of the greatest artists of the twenty-first century - from Amy Winehouse and Jessie J to U2 and Florence and the Machine.

But this is also the story of a young man raised in musically fertile and politically febrile times. His activist parents Darcus Howe and Barbara Beese were tireless campaigners for racial equality at a time when racism was rife, not only on the streets, in schools and on the terraces, but also in the highest institutions of power. Fighting for equality - for himself and for his artists - has therefore been a key part of Darcus's life.

This is the incredible tale of an indomitable leader, an industry pioneer and rebel with a true cause.

Rebel With a Cause: The Black CEO Who Made Hits and History

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Discover Rebel With a Cause: The Black CEO Who Made Hits and History by Darcus Beese. Memoir from Island Records legend. Available in Books format by Nine Eight Books.