==>> A POOR BUSINESSMAN???

[eppylover]

(Originally posted on mrbrianepstein on December 31, 2004)

PLEASE NOTE: Much of this post has been paraphrased
from the writings of Saki.

Comments

[eppylover]

"Why not himself?"
I think it was mostly fear of what had happened through almost all of his life when he dared to try and shine a light upon himself: Ridicule. Humiliation. Failure.

He was very, very afraid of flashing back to his boarding school days, and being beaten up by everyone in full public view. Worst of all, what if his own boys saw him fail in his efforts to be great as himself, and they joined the crowd ridiculing him? Irrational, stubborn fear holds us back. *christine looks in the mirror*

Better his boys should shine at first, and his own time would come in the last months of 1967. He would start shining in Canada, then the U.S. Even then, the viewing public here was much more accepting than in the UK. Canadian and American show business was heaven for Jews and closeted gays in the entertainment world (it still is, but gays do not need to be closeted anymore).

That was the plan between Nat and Brian.
Shit happens, and has notoriously poor timing.

Brian

[anonymous]

I think Cynthia Lennon's book on John was one of the few to pay tribute Brian, Everyone else in retrospect puts the knife into Brian (including people I know from the era who made all the same decisions). I remember Kit Lambert who died in '83 always said that he and Brian were very similar..hearts of artists and no brain really for business which was tedious.

Re: Brian

[eppylover]

Thanks so much for your comment.

There were indeed not many. Alistair Taylor, Ray Coleman, Larry Kane, and Debbie Geller were four more, off the top of my head (I guess it's a matter of one's own definition of "put the knife in" with Coleman, but I think he did very well). I haven't thoroughly perused Pattie Boyd's book yet, but judging from her spoken interviews, I trust her.

Cheers.