On the plus side, it's very readable, entertaining, informative and, as it's been said already by other reviewers, it tells the story of a legendary studio and legendary recordings and artists. It's quite nice that he speaks highly of people who weren't necessarily nice to him, and he also admitted his intentions were far from altruistic (why should they be? He and his family needed to make a living), while at the same time defending himself from accusations he's received over the years because of hearsay. There's obviously many sides of every story, and it's good to know his.
It's sort of a trend to vilify music executives and treat them as the worst people on earth, whilst ignoring, overlooking or underrating the importance they have for the industry itself. In a way I guess it makes rock artists more popular when they slam labels and managers... in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that's often on the advice of said labels and managers as that'll make the artists look 'cooler' and more rebellious and then they'll sell more and everyone will benefit from that. Whether we like it or not, when artists sign up with a company (recording, publishing, distributing, whatever) they become employees and the executives are the investors. Without them, there's no product, no matter how talented the artists are and how much effort they put on writing, arranging and performing the songs.
Having said that, there's one aspect that did disappoint me about the book and is that a lot of the so-called facts are just regurgitated from internet (or old magazine reports). Urban legends, such as 'Bo Rhap' having been played fourteen times by Kenny Everett (Everett officially claimed in 1976 he'd 'only' done it four times), seemed to have been copied and pasted without any sort of verification, thus marring the whole point of what 'setting the record straight' should have been.
Interesting review. I have similar issues with other rock books by people that were actually there just using untrue old stories. A shame, but will pick this one up at some point.