Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll, by Fred Goodman
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The story of notorious manager Allen Klein, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest rock bands in historyAllen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles—not to mention Sam Cooke, Donovan, the Kinks, and numerous other performers—he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars. In so doing, Klein made millions for his clients and changed music forever. But Klein was as merciless with his clients as he was with anyone else, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Klein’s archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, how the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and how the music business became what it is today.
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll, by Fred Goodman - Amazon Sales Rank: #363010 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Released on: 2015-06-23
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.20" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll, by Fred Goodman Review
"[A] savvy, evenhanded biography...Goodman makes the nuts and bolts really interesting...Sharp thumbnail sketches of various performers, managers, and record company executives also liven things up." —The Daily Beast “A compelling work of rock-’n’-roll history."—Wall Street Journal
“Fred Goodman makes this world come alive and any fan of rock or insider tales of the music industry will be in heaven reading about this fascinating, troubling character.” —Judd Apatow “Writing about contracts, percentages and deals can be tedious, but Goodman makes it as exciting as reading about an artist's sex life. The book explodes with inside dope." —Jim Farber, New York Daily News "In this thoroughly researched biography, Goodman (a former Rolling Stone editor and author of The Mansion on the Hill) gives a much more complete, balanced look at the man . . . who has mostly been viewed as a cartoon villain, and fleshes out his portrait with more nuance and brush strokes than even before.—Houston Press
“One highly engrossing read. . . . Fred Goodman is a superb writer and his account here of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most polarizing figures could not be more readable. [A] triumph.”—Yahoo! Music
“I want you to read it, so you can see how the world really works. Allen Klein reinvented the wheel.”—Bob Lefsetz
"Goodman's eye-opening biography of a pivotal insider reveals the record-company machinations behind some of the biggest names from the 1960s."—Booklist "In this balanced, fascinating, and well-written biography, Goodman gives [Allen Klein] credit where it's due."—Kirkus, STARRED
From the Back Cover “Writing about contracts, percentages, and deals can be tedious, but Goodman makes it as exciting as reading about an artist’s sex life. The book explodes with inside dope.” —New York Daily News Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles—not to mention Sam Cooke, Pete Townshend, Donovan, the Kinks, and numerous others—he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars. While Klein made millions for his clients, he was as merciless with them as he was with anyone, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Klein’s archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, how the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and how the music business became what it is today. “Fred Goodman is a superb writer . . . and his account here of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most polarizing figures could not be more readable. The even-handed tone, the supposition that readers are moderately intelligent and sophisticated, and the rather astounding involvement Allen Klein had with pop music’s largest legends—put all that together, and you’ve got one highly engrossing read.” —Yahoo! Music “Succeed[s] both as a compelling work of rock ’n’ roll history and as a cautionary business primer.” —Wall Street Journal FRED GOODMAN, a former editor at Rolling Stone, is the author of the books Fortune’s Fool,The Secret City, and The Mansion on the Hill, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Ralph J. Gleason Award for the best music book of 1997.
About the Author
FRED GOODMAN is a former Rolling Stone editor and the author of the books Fortune's Fool,The Secret City, and The Mansion on the Hill, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Ralph J. Gleason Award for Best Music Book.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Where's the part where he hid the Stones earnings and didn't pay their taxes? By Stephen Conn This is a pretty in-depth investigation into the life of notorious Stones/Beatles manager Allen Klein, but while it addresses his stubborness at making deals and being a hard-nosed operator, it skims over the blatantly criminal acts he performed like putting the Stones earnings in a dummy corporation that only he had access to, so that they had to beg him for money constantly, and didn't pay their taxes for five years, forcing them to leave England and begin their famous exile in France. A fascinating book on the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing in the music industry, but not quite truthful about the essential scumminess of Klein himself.
21 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Must Read For Fans of the Beatles and the Stones - "What If" Update! By Dirk Drudgler Rarely has the ancient truth "there are two sides to every story" been demonstrated more clearly than in Fred Goodman's outstanding biography of rock and roll business manager Allen Klein. Characterized by incredible research and diligent, balanced journalism, this biography portrays Klein as both the hero and the hated. This engaging story could rewrite much of rock history from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s.It is hard to imagine there could be anything left to write about the Beatles or the Stones. Their lives have been chronicled to within minutes by hundreds of biographers. Yet, here it is, a story that hasn't been told. A view, from the perspective of the public's perceived villain, about the early days of the Rolling Stones and the final days of the Beatles.The intensely fascinating account of the acrimonious demise of the Beatles, the world's biggest rock band, is both sad and revealing. Much hatred and scorn has been heaped on Klein who came on the scene in the later ugly days of the band's history. The truth is Klein, who had long coveted the Beatles business, showed up when the enterprise was in complete chaos and actually losing money. Klein believed he was saving the Beatles from themselves, a reasonable proposition when put into proper historical context as Goodman does in this biography.There is nobody more vilified in the incredible history of both the Beatles and the Stones than Allen Klein. Goodman does not go too far out of his way to change this perception. Klein was a ruthless businessman. What Goodman does do, with outstanding precision and clarity, is demonstrate that the interests of the villain and the victims were not very far apart.Goodman presents Klein as a man who truly loved and respected the artistic output of those he represented. However, he was also a man who was very careful about his own interests. In reality, Klein was no different from nearly every other businessman who worked the insane, wild west system of early rock stardom. Owing to his association with the Stones and the Beatles, Klein's stage was just significantly larger.For fans of rock history, this engaging biography is certain to become a must read. For many it will cast a new and different, but not necessarily positive, spin on a man who was a lightning rod for controversy and hatred. Allen Klein's story needed to be told. It is unquestionably a part of the fabric of rock and roll. Fred Goodman does an outstanding job with both great research and excellent writing in presenting Klein's story.An eye opening biographical feast for fans of the Stones and the Beatles. Highly recommended."WHAT IF" UPDATE: I've just read parts of the book a second time and the "what if" scenarios are amazing. Every artist who signed with Klein was immediately rewarded with vastly better deals and better cash flows than they had previously. He was very good about handing out huge checks to his artists. Part of the deal was that he himself became significantly richer, as well. In his early pursuit of the Beatles, Klein had approached Brian Epstein and offered his services. Epstein, who preferred to keep things completely British and to make no waves, refused to deal with the pushy American. History has shown Epstein's business deals for the Beatles were stunningly bad, mere pennies on each album and almost nothing from merchandising. It was just the sheer volume of sales that kept things afloat. Early on, even Paul McCartney took note of how the Stones had benefited from Klein's work.One can't help wondering what would have happened if Epstein had accepted Klein's services. The Beatles would have been instantly better off financially because like a bulldog, Klein would have shredded the horrible deals they had already signed. Klein also would have been around to put the brakes on the Apple fiasco or at least control it enough to achieve the goals they originally had for it. The sudden massive influx of wealth would have definitely had an effect; whether it would be positive or negative is debatable. More importantly, Klein, John and Yoko "got" each other and there again, Klein may have been able to have some positive influence or at least be a buffer between Yoko and the rest of the band (as always, Klein's sense of self-preservation cannot be under-estimated).All this would have happened before Paul met Linda which eventually led to him bringing the Eastmans in to try to run things against the wishes of the other three (who wanted Klein). This was a major factor in the Beatles eventual break-up. By the time Klein showed up the Beatles ship was already sinking and everybody was sick of everybody else with money and management issues being at the center of the problem. It seems logical to assume that long before things went bad, Klein's unerring sense of self interest might have acted as an open steam valve and been enough to encourage the Beatles to explore individual projects (under Klein management, of course) without sacrificing the band. Maybe there would have been a few more albums. Maybe they'd have lasted a few more years (until mortality struck, anyway). Who knows?Klein definitely would have tried to wrangled control of their music as he did with the Stones and Sam Cooke. It was part of the long term deal to avoid outrageous taxation and to provide lifetime benefits, but how could that have been any worse for them than what already existed? Many people not named George, Ringo, Paul or John were swimming in Beatles cash for many, many years. At least Klein ruthlessly protected the integrity of the music he owned, never allowing it to be cheapened with pointless commercial uses (like horrible Nike ads). It's all fun to speculate which is another sign of a great book. I'm increasingly convinced that rock history has been well served by Goodman's excellent biography.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Allen Klein: Sammy Glick and Marvin Miller rolled into one. By Laurence R. Bachmann Fred Goodman's Allen Klein is a good read and interesting book but in some important ways unsatisfying. This rags to riches story of the poor unloved kid from the Jewish orphanage who makes it big relies heavily on cliches. The book seems like a hybrid Bud Shulberg film and Horatio Alger tale, not a personal life story. Klein was, good to many and probably screwed even more than those whom he helped. He seems to be equal parts altruistic and self-serving, white knight and egotistical SOB. The people he helped (while also siphoning off money) were recording artists who were undoubtedly being screwed more by their industry. If they benefited from his efforts, it wasn't nearly as much as he did--ask Bobby Vinton, but still his effort is more than important, it's game-changing.Like Marvin Miller who was setting the sport of baseball on its fat backside, Klein turned the record industry upside down. Happily for groups he represented--the Stones, the Who, Sam Cooke, Marianne Faithful, to name a few--they were paid something approaching the income they deserved. One can say today the compensation has swung to the other extreme, but I'm a firm believer nobody ever bought a ticket to hear a record executive sing or a sports owner fat cat swing a bat. It's far more equitable. If Klein's ethics are shabby and his tactics sleazy and self serving he was working in a business that seemed to be an incubator for such behavior.The books seems somewhat disjointed. Lots of hopping around. The first part is especially heavy on the stereotypes. The highpoint is definitely the 60s when Klein breaks through, changes the industry and is at the pinnacle of the industry. The rest of his story seems more of the same. It isn't the least bit analytic or introspective beyond pop psyche--looking for the approval he never had as a kid seems plausible and banal. Who Klein is wooing or pursuing or whom he is wasting money on become the mantric narrative; it all becomes rather tedious though Goodman never fails to try instill a sense of his life as an astonishing adventure. The adventure seems to have gone out circa 1971 and in the next decade Klein pays the piper--literally. The parts I enjoyed most about the book-- the portrayals of Andrew Oldman and his influence on the Stones and the sketch of Mick Jagger--ironically had little to do with Klein's involvement.This book is strictly about the business of the record industry. Save the portrayals of Oldman and Jagger mentioned above, this is more finance than creativity; more Den of Thieves than Honky Tonk Woman. That's not bad, just not gripping. Those who wish rock 'n roll had remained the music of protest, not the soundtrack to luxury car commercials will really dislike him. I didn't. I just wished he were more dimensional and more engaging.
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