Fredric Dannen
American journalist and author
Fredric Dannen is an American journalist who wrote Hit Men, an investigation into the major record labels and the people who ran them.
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About Fredric Dannen
Fredric Dannen is an American journalist and author. His book Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business appeared in 1990. It looks at how the big US record companies operated across the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on the CBS Records executives Walter Yetnikoff and Dick Asher. It ranked second on a Billboard list of the greatest music books. Dannen also co-wrote Hong Kong Babylon with Barry Long. That book looks at how Hong Kong's film business overlaps with Asian organized crime. He was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Barron's and Channels. In 1986 he was a joint winner of the Morton Frank Award, which the Overseas Press Club gives for reporting on business overseas.