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Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers [Paperback]

Steve Overbury (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (5 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845962346
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845962340
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 707,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A great collection of anecdotes and sad tales . . . crawling with madcap hell-raising stories that really need to be read to believed." --"The Crack"

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For decades, British bands like The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Wham! and even the Spice Girls have dominated the music industry and made countless millions for themselves, their record companies and their managers.

For behind each of those bands was a guiding hand, a Svengali, protecting, promoting, persuading and occasionally punishing on the band's behalf. Some of those managers became almost as famous as the bands themselves. Brian Epstein was a household name while Malcolm McLaren, Don Arden and Peter Grant became infamous. Others like The Clash's Bernie Rhodes and Pink Floyd's Steve O'Rourke were happier out of the limelight, but they shared the same strange devotion to their upstart charges.

Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers celebrates this special breed - often flawed low achievers but true believers, hard-nosed wheeler-dealers and schemers who were as at home talking to drug dealers and the Mafia as they were to corporate lawyers. Of the twelve managers featured, at least five of them were drug enthusiasts, while others liked having guns to hand. Four of them died young - one committed suicide, one may have been murdered. Two others escaped a premature death by the skin of their teeth.

Although times have changed and Simon Fuller has given us a masterclass in twenty-first-century management, one thing remains the same: like the bands they ran, the managers were all world class.

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For those of us unfortunate enough not to have lived through this era of music management, Steve's book is an intriguing insight into music management before the era of mass production and audience manipulation. The time of Svengali's with dreams, guts and attitude rather than stylists, spin doctors and high waistbands!!
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By S. Carr
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Whilst this is a decent collection of stories from some of the most influential managers in the business (Arden, Green et al), it does rather borrow from the source material. If you are looking for a brief overview of some old rock stories of misbehaviour, threat etc, it'll do the job. Anything deeper, you'll be wanting to look elsewhere.
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Senior Management 19 Nov 2009
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I read this splendid and informative book with relish and thoroughly enjoyed it. Yes, quotes are taken from other books as the above reviewer has rather nitpicked in pointing out but done so in a way that doesn't distract from the subject matter and the enjoyment of the ripping yarns herein, and why read all the other books when you can have it all in one main course. Unable to put it down once I'd started, I read it in one sitting rather like a sumptuous and enjoyable lunch with good wine thrown in.
If you're interested in the behind the scenes shenanagins that goes on within the rock & roll aristocracy then this is the book for you. Highly recommended.
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