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Reissue, repackage, repackage. Satiate the need!

punkfloyd — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:14:03 -0800

The Great Rock n Roll Swindler has died. Allen Klein, who once managed both the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, died in New York on Saturday, aged 77, after battling Alzheimer's disease. His appeal to the Rolling Stones was as a “gangster figure” who appeared to be outside the establishment. Renegotiating the Stones’ contract with Decca, Klein told the company’s chairman that he hoped his record executives could sing, “because you’ve just lost the Stones”. Decca eventually payed a far higher price to retain their services. John Lennon persuaded his fellow Beatles to appoint Klein as their manager because he wanted “a real shark, someone to keep the other sharks away.” Recalling his career in 2002, Klein said: “I never wanted to be a manager. It was going over the books that I loved.”

delicious linkage

riffola — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:09:52 -0800

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Lookism Gone Awry

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:20:41 -0800

Perhaps This Public Image/Persona Thing Has Gone Just A Little Too Far: Luís Campos Lopes, the manager of the Portuguese football team Vitoria de Setúbal has just been sacked for "projecting a negative image of the club". [Link in Portuguese, but please read on.] The reason? Just watch the photo-sequence in the main link. Luís Lopes had trouble putting on his Setúbal vest during a crucial game with Benfica! I.e. the powerful sports media in Portugal and Brazil have had a riot with the photographs and the poor widdle proprietors were embarrassed. So? He may not be a brilliant manager - but isn't this blatant lookism? Isn't "image" becoming much too big for its boots, as it were, in professional sports? [Here is the only English language reference I could find. Please scroll down to "Luís Campos".]