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...interviewed dozens of sources in the pop-recording field, New York Correspondent James Willwerth was frequently asked about his journalistic background. "I had to admit," he says, "that I've spent most of my time covering organized crime, rebellions, riots and the war." His book about Viet Nam, Eye in the Last Storm, was recently published by Grossman. The usual reply, recalls Willwerth, was, "You've come to the right place. You'll feel at home...
...weeks, Willwerth visited record industry headquarters, meeting pop music's promoters and star performers. Record companies, he found, can be ruggedly zany. "All the ingredients of a carnival are there: clowns, hucksters, mystics and assorted crazies-all sniping at each other with popguns in an atmosphere of distorted mirrors and colored lights. I loved them...
Though the pop music wars are less dangerous than Willwerth's earlier assignments, they are a fierce struggle for the record companies. This week in our cover story we examine the $3 billion-a-year recording industry and the battle tactics being used...
...former Viet Nam correspondent, Willwerth has had his share of hours on airliners, helicopters and transport planes. Flying with Bach, he found, is something different...
...Arizona, Bach guided the plane down for a landing amidst startled boaters to snatch an afternoon swim in Lake Havasu. Over Kansas, he handed Willwerth the controls. "I immediately learned the true meaning of sweaty palms," recalls Willwerth, who up to that moment had three fewer hours behind the wheel than Foote. Willwerth gamely hung on over three states before gratefully surrendering the controls in time for Bach to handle the landing...