On a recent episode of Influencers with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, legendary record producer Chris Blackwell explained his reluctance to be photographed with Bob Marley and his band, the Wailers. “I didn’t want to be, you know, a kind of white management type guy who was hanging around claiming what they’ve helped happen or something like that, you know, because they did,” Blackwell told Yahoo Finance. “He didn’t need that. He had it all himself. He knew what he knew… Source link
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On a recent episode of Influencers with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief, Andy Serwer, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records explained how he signed some of the world’s most successful stars. “You have an instinct really, of how you feel basically what they are like, and you get a feel for them,” Blackwell told Yahoo Finance. Blackwell, who recently released a memoir called “The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond,” grew up in Jamaica, where he developed a lifelong… Source link
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