"Do you exploit teenage talent?"
While surfing the net I found this great Peter Sellers sketch sending up the stereotypical Svengali music manager. It is actually poking fun at Larry Parnes, the British impresario who nearly discovered the Beatles. But it's funny even if you don't know the first thing about Parnes...
"He personally discovered such disk names as Lennie Bronze, Clint Thigh, Matt Lust and such vocal groups as The Fleshpots, The Muckrakers. There were always five or six such up-and-coming rock stars living with him in his luxury flat in Mount Street, so it was, naturally, there I went to get my interview."
"He personally discovered such disk names as Lennie Bronze, Clint Thigh, Matt Lust and such vocal groups as The Fleshpots, The Muckrakers. There were always five or six such up-and-coming rock stars living with him in his luxury flat in Mount Street, so it was, naturally, there I went to get my interview."