ABSTRACT
The artist’s manager is a much-maligned figure in the music business. The manager takes too much from the artist; drives too hard a bargain with the record company; earns a percentage even when the income has been derived from an activity in which he or she has had no involvement whatsoever; and enjoys all the fun, the glamour, the money, but doesn’t have to sell his or her soul on stage night after night or burn out in the studio for months on end.
