Andrew O’Hagan explores the history of the all-powerful backstage hustler, considering “Elvis and the Colonel,” by Greg McDonald; “Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography,” by Staci Robinson; and “The Woman in Me,” by Britney Spears.
In the twilight hours favored by the owl of Minerva , we can now begin to study some vital elements in the job description. Back in the nineteen-forties, the popular-music industry depended on bookers, promoters, and agents, but there was a growing demand for bespoke handling. Nat King Cole found it in the Honduras-born Carlos Gastel, a six-foot bruiser in a pin-striped suit with a pocket square, best known for repping dance bands and the occasional boxer.
Don DeLillo’s novel “Great Jones Street” , about the “devouring neon” of fame, gives us the rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who, burned out at twenty-five, holes up in a cold New York apartment, awaiting cosmic lessons about power and language. After stepping out for food one day, he returns to find his manager with one arm down the toilet bowl looking for a dime.
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