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Music. Media. Culture. Audio. Television. Film. Production. Editorial. Consulting. Management. I spent a few years traveling the world, interviewing people like David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, U2, Barry White, David Lynch and Daniel Day Lewis. After getting way with this charade I became a music manager, having crossed paths (and sometimes swords) with the biggest and baddest, from Bruce Allen (Bryan Adams, Michael Buble) to Peter Grant (Led Zeppelin) to Malcolm McLaren (The Sex Pistols) to the notorious Irving Azoff (The Eagles), about whom his client Don Henley once said: "He may be the devil, but he's our devil." I'd seen the titans up close and thought "How hard can that be?" Ha. I managed a win with soul/R&B artist Remy Shand, signing him to a big record deal, with Motown/Universal, and executive produced his only album "The Way I Feel," which won a Juno Award and went platinum in Canada, garnered four Grammy nominations in America, and got a lot of love in Europe and Japan. For my next act, I created and produced a deliberately eclectic music television series, "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..." shot at the 30 Rock/Saturday Night Live studio and the Apollo Theatre in NYC. The versatile Mr. Costello hosted, and our guests included such up-and-comers as Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Bono and The Edge, The Police and Norah Jones. Spectacle made many year-end Top 10 TV lists (Time Magazine, New York Times) and was reviewed as "perhaps the best show about music ever made." Last few years: Wrote a newspaper column on media and politics; returned to school; read behavioral economics; developed a feature film; and worked on new projects for TV, audio, and digital. Also learned a little about tech. And I do mean a little. Specialties: Content, Talent, Media, Music.