"That interwoven community included Brian Epstein (who brought the world the Beatles), Kit Lambert (who co-managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Gees), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pitt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smith (who formed the visionary label Charisma for bands like Genesis). In fact, it was a gay man, Larry Parnes, who svengali-d Britain's very first rockers, from Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wilde."
Jim Farber at The Guardian talks with Darryl W. Bullock about Bullock's new book, The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swinging Sixties.
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