White Rabbit lands debut memoir from music PR 'legend' Charone

White Rabbit has snapped up the debut memoir Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music and Culture by music PR "legend" Barbara Charone. 

Lee Brackstone, publisher, acquired world rights from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. The memoir is scheduled for 23rd June 2022. 

Charone is one of the most respected women working the music business who co-founded the independent music agency MBCPR after 20 years at Warner Brothers. 

The “personal, insightful and humorous memoir” is filled with stories, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex to taking on Madonna and telling Smash Hits "you don’t have to run the piece if the single doesn’t chart”. 

The publisher described the book as a “time capsule of the last 50 years, told through the lens of music, from the incredible woman who set the cultural agenda in her work with a myriad of stars including Keith Richards, Foo Fighters, REM, Rod Stewart and Madonna”. 

Brackstone said: “Whether you know it or not, Barbara Charone’s uncanny taste and understanding of the pop culture zeitgeist has been the invisible compass driving your gig-going and music-buying habits for the past forty years. A maverick PR with the magic touch, her magnificent memoir tells the story of a music-obsessed girl from Chicago who falls in love with British counter-culture, destined to re-shape it for multiple generations.”