The Rise of ALLEN KLEIN: the baddest villain of Rock
Channel: Simon Mas
Date: 2023-05-20

Allen Klein has a reputation. He's been known as the bane of record label executives, the hero of exploited musicians, a profiteer, and a thief! There are countless stories seeing him as the villain.

But is this reputation deserved? After all, he started a music business revolution, delivering on all the promises he made to his clients. His record deal for Sam Cooke was decades before its time. And yet...

In this series, we'll see Klein rising from the humblest beginnings to become one of the biggest forces in music business. We'll see the good, the bad, and the ugly.


***CHAPTERS***
00:00 What we're talking about
01:15 Childhood years
04:00 A change of plans
07:00 Getting to the top
10:43 A stroke of genius
15:47 Death and taxes

Thanks to Pexels.com, Pixabay.com, and OpenGameArt.org for the B Rolls and the sound effects.

***OTHER EPISODES ABOUT KLEIN***
Allen Klein and Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Z3IxDYkak
Allen Klein and The Beatles: https://youtu.be/79OppMMx4ds

#allenklein #musicbusiness #samcooke 

***SOURCE***
Goodman, Fred. Allen Klein: The Man who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)


This video sees Allen growing up in poverty, struggling to make his name as an accountant, and finally becoming a business manager of bigger and bigger stars in the pop world. His work for Sam Cooke, in the last year of the singer's life, stands as a pinnacle of genius. He delivered on all accounts. And profitted uncannily from the Cooke's death.

This is not Allen Klein with the Beatles, not Allen Klein with the Rolling Stones. It is Allen Klein and Sam Cooke, Allen Klein beginnings, Allen Klein documentary, Allen Klein music business.


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