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The music legend putting a fire in every reader’s belly
As a writer and musician, I’m always interested in others’ approach to the creative process. When that someone is legendary music producer Rick Rubin, I’m even more interested. Rubin’s decades-long career has seen him produce a wildly eclectic mix of musicians and bands – everyone from Slayer to Adele by way of Johnny Cash and the Beastie Boys – and that eclecticism suggests a man at home facilitating the creativity of others.
Rubin has put all that experience into his new book,, a beautiful, cloth-bound hardback with the intriguing subtitle,. That subtitle hints at what’s inside, as Rubin’s approach is less a practical guide and more of an existential enquiry into the nature of creativity, art and being part of the human race. If that sounds a little ambitious and hifalutin, maybe it is, but Rubin is sincere in his search for what constitutes creativity, and the importance
