First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records
for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,
the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal,
insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the
cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter
driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking
the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much
more popular sulfate. To taking on Madonna, an unknown girl from
Detroit, and telling Smash Hits 'you don't have to run the piece if
the single doesn't chart', and becoming a true pioneer in music, Charone
continues to work with the biggest names in music, including Depeche
Mode, Robert Plant, Foo Fighters and Mark Ronson at her agency MBCPR.
The story of how a music-loving, budding journalist from a Chicago
suburb became the defining music publicist of her generation, Access
All Areas is a time capsule of the last fifty years, told through the
lens of music.
