Report One: Book Review: "Hollywood Shack Job" by Harvey Kubernick

Since my interests lie in music and its crossing over into film, podcasts, and really any other medium, I felt this book was the perfect read for me.
The format of the book is unconventional because of the great use of interviews. Each chapter is dedicated to an influential person, or power house of operations, in the movement of the fusion of music and film. The first few pages within each chapter elaborates on the life of the person and their importance within the industry, then smooths over into pages and pages of recorded interview segments with that person. I appreciated this concept because it laid a very concrete ground of truth within the writing and little was left to the bias opinion of the author.
My favorite person covered in the book was D.A. Pennebaker, a man best known for his creations of documentaries of ground-breaking musicians. A couple of his well-known pieces are "Don't Look Back", "Ziggy", "Monterey Pop", "Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock", and "Gimmie Shelter". Throughout the interview many filming techniques and stories are revealed, the two most memorbale for me were about Bob Dylan and David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust. Pennebaker mentions going into shooting "Don't Look Back", a documentery about Bob Dylan on tour, without a storyboard or any sort of focus as far as beginning and end. He discusses Dylan being a creative entity within the production, completely falling into the role of being the main character and putting on a show without meaning to. Pennebaker continues to share stories such as not knowing who Ziggy Stardust was since he was originally sent to film a performance by David Bowie! I found this story to be one of the most amusing.
The book progresses in this sort of fashion of intimate interviews and introductions to a slew of people who made a difference in the merge of music and film, such as Fred Raphael, Andrew Oldham, Larry King, Clem Burke, Stephen Wooley...etc.
It is an incredibly interesting read for anyone who is interested in the history of music in film.