Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

In the spring of 1975, at the same time the Apple founders took up residence in the Jobs family garage, a trio of neophyte businessmen backed an old Chrysler onto a sun-baked Arizona driveway and convened in their new facility. The garage start-up, optimistically (yet prophetically) dubbed Ticketmaster, would come to achieve such market dominance over the decades to follow, that some critics would denounce the company as an unlawful monopoly. Yet its path to the top was far from inevitable. Ticket Masters is based on first-person interivews with the key players.