Bruce Kimmel
Jonathan Goldman has a problem. He’s just been ousted from the company he created. A one hit wonder singer/songwriter and now successful record producer, his life is suddenly thrown into complete and utter turmoil. His former business partners have only one goal - to ruin his life and do him as much harm as possible. At sixty, no other label will hire him. Alone, with only his handful of friends to rally around him, Jonathan Goldman is on a downward spiral from which he may never recover. And then... people begin to die.
Written in vivid detail and a unique style, Rewind is a taut, suspenseful, chilling, and often funny look at how a decent person can be dragged through the mud by people who enjoy that particular pastime. It’s also a colorful peek inside the music business, and the day-to-day process of how albums are actually produced.
Bruce Kimmel has had a long and varied career. He wrote, directed and starred in the cult movie hit, The First Nudie Musical. He performed those same duties on his second film The Creature Wasn’t Nice (aka Naked Space), with Leslie Nielsen, Cindy Williams and Patrick Macnee. He also co-created the story for the hit film, The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez. As an actor, Mr. Kimmel guest-starred on most of the long-running television shows of the 1970s.
Since 1993, Mr. Kimmel has been one of the leading producers of theatre music on CD, having produced over 130 albums. He was nominated for a Grammy for producing the revival cast album of Hello, Dolly! and his album with jazz pianist Fred Hersch, I Never Told You, was also nominated for a Grammy. He created the critically acclaimed Lost In Boston and Unsung Musicals series, has produced solo albums for Petula Clark, Helen Reddy, Liz Callaway, Laurie Beechman, Paige O’Hara, Christiane Noll, Judy Kaye, Judy Kuhn, Brent Barrett, Jason Graae, Randy Graff, Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley, and has worked with such legends as Lauren Bacall, Elaine Stritch and Dorothy Loudon. He has also produced many off-Broadway and Broadway cast albums.
Mr. Kimmel has written four previous novels – the acclaimed coming-of-age trilogy comprised of Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, and Kritzer Time, and the mystery, Writer’s Block.
"Bruce Kimmel''s Rewind is a fascinating work of fiction, an alternately dark, witty and chilling account of the trouble an honorable man can get into in the music business, enhanced by intriguing ''insider'' details that spring from the author''s apparently hard-earned experience as a record producer. Good nasty, devious fun."
Dick Lochte
Author of Sleeping Dog, Blue Bayou, The Neon Smile
“Watch out, cruel world. Bruce is on the loose, and this time he''s out for blood. That Marcel Proust of the 1950s, our Jean Shepard of the Twenty-First Century, now looks back in hilarious anger to just yesterday, when all our troubles seemed not far away. With the subterfuge of a Kasparov and the pungency of a Kerouac, show biz sleuth Kimmel takes us down a mysterious road, one he knows so well that he painted the double line down the middle. Once again, Bruce Kimmel proves to be a master of fiendish mystery as well as fondest memory. Be entertained. Be very entertained.”
Rupert Holmes
Multiple Edgar and Tony award-winning author of
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Accomplice, Where the Truth Lies, and Swing
