Fact #52285
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The Paramounts, later to become Procol Harum, sign an agency contract with NEMS Enterprises, owned by The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein.Full article:
Gary Brooker [The Paramounts/Procol Harum] : I think our previous agent, Alan Eisenberg, split up with the people he had been with and moved over to NEMS. Our agent, who we had been involved with for a long time, became involved with NEMS.
We rather gloriously went and had a lunch meeting with Brian Epstein. He said, 'Nice to have you in the stable.' They were more organised than what we'd had up til then, and they were very nice people, but they didn't last much longer. They were a good agency to be with, but there were also people like Harold Davidson, who was one of the biggest agents of the day. But then your agent would sell you on to another agent.
(Interview with Johnny Black, July 2007)
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We rather gloriously went and had a lunch meeting with Brian Epstein. He said, 'Nice to have you in the stable.' They were more organised than what we'd had up til then, and they were very nice people, but they didn't last much longer. They were a good agency to be with, but there were also people like Harold Davidson, who was one of the biggest agents of the day. But then your agent would sell you on to another agent.
(Interview with Johnny Black, July 2007)