The Business of Music Management

Introduction

I was a small-town boy growing up with big-time dreams. Born at the close of the 1950s, my earliest memories are from the turbulent 1960s: the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, the Vietnam War, the Hippies and then the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Moon Landing. These historical events are embedded in my memory, but even more, the music of this time and shortly after is embedded in my psyche. It seems like the AM radio was always on (this was before cassettes, 8-tracks, or CDs) and the popular music of the day was mesmerizing. Our heroes were The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, The Monkees, The Doors, The Who, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Richie Havens, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, ...