Yesterday’s Washington Post<\/i> had an article on Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles. He died of a drug overdose, forty years ago today.<\/p>\n
He was thirty-three.<\/p>\n
You read a book on the Beatles, and he’s there, in the background. Usually, it’s something salacious about his personal life — Brian was a homosexual in a time when it wasn’t a good idea to be gay — or about his atrocious business sense — he basically gave away merchandising rights, and the Beatles earned very little.<\/p>\n
Brian Epstein may not have been a business genius, but he was a marketing<\/i> genius. He discovered other bands. He had a stable. It wasn’t just the Beatles, and he helped to shape pop music in the 1960s. He shaped the culture<\/i>.<\/p>\n
And all before he was thirty-three.<\/p>\n
That puts a lot of life into perspective.<\/p>\n
The point of the Post<\/i>‘s article is that he’s all but forgotten today. For this Beatle-fan, not today. Brian Epstein, you did good.<\/p>\n
Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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