“Rick Rubin: in the Studio” by Jake Brown out on 11th August

A book on Rick Rubin, the legendary producer who worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others, is about to hit the stores on 11th August this year.

Here’s what they said about it on Amazon:
Chronicling record producer Rick Rubin’s meteoric rise in the music industry, this authoritative book posits that he has taken greater risks than any other producer of the past 25 years. Tracing his career from Def Jam Records—founded with Russell Simmons in a New York University dorm room—to his recent years as a top independent record executive, the book also goes behind the scenes to show how Rubin created hit albums with such diverse legends as the Beastie Boys, the Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash, LL Cool J, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Rage Against the Machine—as well as the great rock and metal supergroups, Audioslave, Linkin Park, and Metallica.

And here’s what they said about it on Blabbermouth:On August 11, ECW Press will issue the 300-page book “Rick Rubin: in the Studio” by biographer Jake Brown. Nearly three years of meticulous research went into the making of the book, which documents the roots of Rubin’s rise as one of the industry’s most singularly influential record producers and A&R men, chronicles the making of such ground-breaking Def Jam-era classic LPs as the Beastie Boys’ seminal “License to Ill” and Run DMC’s “Raising Hell”, his legendary, career-resurrecting collaboration with Johnny Cash, and of course, Rubin’s countless successes in the studio with such wide-ranging rock/metal superstars as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, Audioslave, System Of A Down, Weezer, Danzig, The Cult, Linkin Park, Metallica and others.

You can preorder the book here if you live in Europe and here if you’re elsewhere in the world.

A special thanks goes to Jo for helping me compile this post.