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Worst Music Manager of All Time? Hey Orgers, who is the worst music manager of all time and why? Trolls be gone! | |
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Colonel Tom Parker -fucked Elvis over BIG time! | |
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Details please? Trolls be gone! | |
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Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Wait, are you saying LA Reid then? Wasn't he her manager? Trolls be gone! | |
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Pebbles managed TLC. TLC claims Pebbles cheated them out of millions and managed them horribly, resulting in bankrupcy in '95. This was chronicled in VH1's CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story. |
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Oh thanks for clarifying Trolls be gone! | |
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. From what I can tell they were "business partners" as he was her husband at the time, he was successfully running LaFace, she needed something to do besides pedis, smoothies, and riding around in her Mercedes. . However Peebs absolutely knew what she was doing. If you ask her she's a genius. | |
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Yeah and now Peebles is claiming she was a victim of the industry right? I thought she was claiming she was another one of the victims of the industry herself... Trolls be gone! | |
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Pebbles? Ha! She's a rookie compared with the utter ruthlessness and avarice of Colonel Parker and Allen Klein. | |
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How bout Papa Joe? Frank Farian? | |
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Are we speaking in terms of abusing finances, talent, or generally being detrimental to music as art?
There's also Sharon Osbourne's father Don Arden, who's been said to beat up people and had mob ties. Bon Jovi's manager Doc McGhee was convicted for smuggling drugs. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I forgot his name, but Sly Stone's manager needs to be in this list. He screwed Sly over for millions of dollars! Although Sly finally got his money ain a lawsuit few years ago. [Edited 12/7/15 9:23am] | |
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All of the above in terms of defining "worst"! Trolls be gone! | |
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Any greedy ones | |
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Billy Joel's second manager, not his first mistake which was his wife at the time, she screwed things up but later on around the "Storm Front" era Billy realized he was again getting screwed and almost had nothing. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Frank Dileo. | |
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Maurice Starr wasn't a manager. He's a producer and head of a record label. Dick Scott was the mananger of New Edition & NKOTB. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Priceless...
[Edited 12/7/15 14:42pm] | |
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He took 50% of Elvis earnings for one thing. It was rumored that the Colonel was not a US citizen and was here illegally and never left the US because he was afraid he would not be let back in. So Elvis could not perform in other countries. Elvis wanted to do more serious movies but the Colonel only had him do movies that were cheap to film and would make more money. The Colonel also had Elvis record songs he didn't like for the same reason. If the songwriter would not give up part of the publishing or give Elvis a writing credit (mostly the early stuff had a writing credit added), the Colonel would not let Elvis record the song. There were many songs that Elvis wanted to do, but was not allowed by the Colonel because of this. He also had Elvis playing in Vegas to cover his gambling debts. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Matthew Knowles | |
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Why did you edit it? | |
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BINGO! Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
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That's insane! I never knew that....makes sense why Elvis was pushed to be a Vegas act..man his manager had no soul apparently Trolls be gone! | |
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Jack Gordon wasn't a barrel of laughs. | |
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