Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues

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Here Comes the Night is both a definitive account of the golden age of rhythm and blues of the early ’60s and the harrowing, in the long run tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career used to be fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, Berns used to be not expected to live to look 21. Despite the fact that his name is little remembered as of late, Berns worked alongside all of the greats of the era—Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, someone who used to be someone in New York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from no one to the top of the pops—producer of monumental r&b classics, songwriter of “Twist and Shout,” “My Girl Sloopy,” “Piece of My Heart,” and others.

His fury to succeed led Berns to make use of his Mafia associations to muscle Atlantic Records out in their partnership and intimidate new talents like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison, whom he had signed to his record label. Berns died at age 38 from a long-expected heart attack, just when he used to be seeing his grandest plans and life’s ambitions frustrated and foiled.

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