My vote’s for Malcolm McLaren. Rumor has it (and by “rumor,” I mean “Johnny Rotten”) that he kept Sid Vicious on the smack, he separated Adam from his Ants, he had 15-year-old Annabella Lwin (I think I’m getting the name right) pose nude for an album cover, and he also attempted to write a musical about children having lots and lots of sex. And there are other things too, but it’s been a couple of years since I read his biography.

Tommy Mottola

Clive Davis- His strong-hold on Whitney is still present nearly 25 years into her career.

Yoko Ono

elvis’s manager, colonel sanders or whatever. heard he was a real d-i-c-k.

You have to put the Colonel there. The William Morris agency gave him his own office for fear he would take Elvis away.

Papa Joe Jackson

Ike Turner

Backstreet Boys and N’Sync are pre-fab pop bands? I’m sure you didn’t figure it out today… You had them on your cover, remember? I thought RS was about rock and roll. This comes to show what a sell-out you’ve become. Shame on you, RS!!!

Perez Hilton

what about albert grossman?

Don King. Mike Tyson is no saint, but he is a very bad man. Maybe he got it from those four years he was in prison for Manslaughter!!!

Eugene Landy???!!! Wasnt he the one at least responsible for helping B. Wilson get past his deamons enough and pretty much save his life…..not to mention he’s part of the reason Wilson got the courage to re-record Smile…which means he is OK by me.

Joe Jackson

Who else but the svengali of the folk movement, |Albert Grossman.

He was double dipping into all his clients earnings

Allen Klein

Dr. Lantry was not Brian Wilson’s savior – he was a leech who kept him drugged and actually took songwriting credits on some of Brian’s work. His his medical license was revoked and deservedly so.

the colonel!

what about basically every record label that forces artists to make a certain kind of music or image just to push units…. oh, and courtney love

I think that time will show that Simon Cowel is a big svengalli

Not long after Brian Wilson’s family finally kicked “Dr.” Eugene Landy out of Wilson’s life, Landy ran & hid with his stolen goods in Hawaii, where I had the displeasure of working for him… took me a few weeks to realize who he was, but once I did, it all made sense… Landy was an Evil, Mean and Nasty man, not to be pitied. To know him was to loathe him. May he rest in Piss.

Karl Rove

yoko ono

pete wentz

Um, Axl Rose?

doctor roberts by the beatles

what about the FDA?…

yoko ono no doubt

Berry Gordy….in charge of making some of the best records ever, ripped everyone off, had the best stable of stars ever i.e. stevie,marvin, the supremes, smokey,the temptations etc… paid them wages.

Yoko Ono and Malcolm McLaren

Yoko. And what’s this shit review about her underrated talent in your magazine? Underrated? The bitch sounds like a mouse with a telephone pole up it’s ass. Have a nice day.

me.

Brian Epstein. Besides The Beatles, he also had Gerry & The Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, The Fourmost and Cilla Black in his stable.

Curt Davenport

If were not only talking musical svengali(s)….my vote is for Karl Rove! He makes Yoko Ono, Colonel Sanders and that beach boys guy look like Muppet Babies after a long nap!

I’m thinking Phil Spector qualifies! Remember how he controlled (held hostage) Ronnie Spector?

You have only seen the tip of the iceberg with Papa Lou. Once you begin to get the full picture of his records of using the court and using young boys ever gets told. You have no idea what a monster this man is and how many people and families he has destroyed

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