Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Page #3

CKLW programmed the record because they had to.

Was Canadian.

When "eighteen" started up in the lists of CKLW,

the other radios in the country wanted the song.

But nobody knew where the disc was.

Warner was flooded with calls.

Straight refused to publish it,

Warner realized they had to do something.

They said, "Do not tell anything

a Straight, but we'll publish it."

The album was released by Warner. Then

Straight sued and published them.

Told them they could not get it out in Straight,

so I again became Warner again.

The album was released in 17 editions.

Straight, Warner, Straight, Warner...

ended in a trial of seven or eight years.

There were many millions of dollars.

Never got the money, they kept it.

We were looking for money,

and the answer was England.

I immediately booked for Alice

Wembley Arena, which seats 10,000 seats.

We had only sold 50 tickets. So I asked how do

met Alice in England.

- Warner had hired a guy named Derek Taylor.

- Derek Taylor, the Beatles publicist.

Derek was a wonderful character, smoking his cigar

and spoke very little. He created the Beatlemania.

- Derek is true that the Beatles are finished?

- No, not until they die.

When I arrived at the office of Derek, there were

Harry Nilsson, George Harrison

- And Carolyn Pfeiffer, our PR

charge in England.

My portfolio represented included Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford

, Liza Minelli, Mac Cartney and Wings...

Selling Alice in England was part of the general plan

to make him a rock star.

Derek asked me to tell Alice Cooper.

I told him that Alice was all parents hate.

Alice was photographed naked with a boa constrictor

on their genitals.

Derek said:
photo, truck, Picadilly and break.

"Parents have to hate you."

He had the idea of putting a giant poster

truck and take it to Picadilly Circus.

Had to drive to get there

during peak hours and then getting stuck.

Is a main artery of London.

Shep told the driver: "Whatever happens, do not move

You'll be rewarded if they arrest us care.."

My job as PR was to get all the press

British knew.

So there they were, taking photographs of a naked man with a snake

.

The traffic was completely paralyzed in the center.

- Appeared in all media. - Worked

-

The next day, the tickets were sold out Wembley.

- This should be a milestone in the decline of the British Empire.

After the concert, the single

"School's Out" was No. 1 in the UK and worldwide.

It was great to get the money, but it turned out better than

us. I congratulated myself in the mirror.

In the album "School's Out"

really took a big jump. It all came together.

The voices in this album are absolutely unmatched.

The idea for the cover was that you could bend

as the deck of a school bench.

When it hits you had things like a switchblade

and gum.

- And Shep said, "panties".

- Panties.

- I said "Panties!? ?!"

- Panties.

"If you're in the seventh grade, they open the bank and have

a pair of panties, you're a king."

And Shep says:
"Let panties on disk."

Types of Warner said You know how expensive is that?

- But Shep said:
You know how revolutionary it is ?.

The album sold millions,

and started touring around the world.

The life revolves difficult.

Never know well where you are when you wake up.

Alcohol and drugs were the rule.

I could order room service at night and have a Bloody Mary

on the bedside table

- Upon waking, looked where he was and drank.

One of the objectives was not having to unpack

Because so you could wake up from a night of excess

and will be nothing left in the room.

Life on Tour was a series of lists.

Is everyone here? Are all the cars were uploaded?

All arrived at the airport?

They searched all the luggage? Is everyone at the door?

You You came to the place of the show and Is all the equipment? Operators

lights, the spotlights.

Half an hour before I need my computer

uniformed and ready.

Five minutes before the band

standing beside the stage.

One minute before the light goes

and the show starts on time.

The three main tasks of a manager:

1 - Getting money

2 - Always remember you should get the money

- And never forget that you must remember to get money

And then make sure everyone back after the show

- no underage women, because they attract too much attention...

- And that is wrong.

- And because it's wrong.

The scene on the plane of "Almost Famous"

is based on something that happened to me when I was on tour.

We were on the plane of Alice Cooper, Cameron Crowe

going to write an article about Alice.

An engine caught fire. We thought we were going to fall.

A roadie shouted "

going to die!" I have to confess something "!

Turned to a guy whose wife was pregnant

and said "I am the true father of that baby."

Several seconds later, the pilot apologized and said he would land

smoothly.

The next 20 minutes were very uncomfortable.

"I did not die!"

They made the cover of

"Billion Dollar Babies" in London.

- I lent them my baby.

- She had a beautiful daughter. Lola, appearing

with painted eyes in the arms of Alice.

The Godfather it was Charlie Chaplin.

The album was very, very successful.

There were about boys and suddenly was here

the world's biggest band

With his private plane, knowing the

exotic people in exotic locations

They were accepted as superstars.

Most managers say "Oh, no, do not do that,

is bad for your image..."

- But Shep was always very positive: "Do"

We had gotten our first stage

baseball and we were thinking of doing something awesome.

I called and Alice and I said I have it, we're going to

fired from a cannon.

I said, "OK." I did not say: "It is dangerous, maybe we should not do

".

I lay on the barrel, left-side

And while put a doll in the barrel and fired a network

I would have arrived and appear on the other side.

That was the trick.

Fired, there was an explosion

and the doll flew less than a meter.

- Fell right...

- I have never seen worse.

People screamed with laughter,

worked as a gag Inspector Clouseau.

Ended by selling the gun to

Rolling Stones.

I moved to Los Angeles

for business reasons.

In full 70, had much success,

too many beautiful women, too many drugs...

Alice had problems with alcohol,

I spent time at the Playboy Mansion.

The first time I left my clothes next to the jacuzzi and leaving

was gone, I thought I had been stolen.

In the Playboy Mansion had ironed people you

and left hanging clothes while you baabas.

Being in Playboy Mansion and ironed while you were in the jacuzzi

-

- it was a dream for every Jewish child of Rhode Island.

Then I met Marcy Hanson a Playboy model.

We had a very intense relationship.

We married after a short time

- But we realized it was a mistake and consiguimos

annul the marriage.

Then I started making money and bought some houses.

One of them had a train between home and

pool. I also bought Alice's house.

People would not stop ringing the doorbell and then

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