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Brains Behind the Beat

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Marc Myers
Feb 15, 2016
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Behind every successful rock star and band is an ambitious, canny and sometimes ruthless manager. Here's a swell BBC documentary—Masters of Pop: Money Makers—on the cunning businessmen who cut the deals and sometimes throats to put rock talent on the map and keep them there. [Photo above of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley]

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