Svengali

Malcolm Mclaren to thread...

Imagine the Mondays without Bez.

Mike Alway

i think they also got v.caught up in outside work also tho, dr c: eg anne dudley esp. was doing themetunes to every tv show evah

my guess is morley was less svengali than early warning system for cliches

Contributed to their appeal, or just contributed? If the latter, I'll nominate Colonel Tom Parker.

Someone's itchin' to say George Martin. Although, you could consider him to be musical.

So - clarify - do musician/producers count? or do you just mean entourage?

... Andy Warhol...BTW

I'm not too sure quite what I mean :-) Someone who doesn't contribute musically other than to say you should do this or stop doing that. More importantly someone who acts as a mentor, offering a vision or an ideology, or as mark s sez acting as a cliche filter. Someone who in a way contributes more than the band themselves, or takes the band from being merely mundane to something quite extraordinarty. Could be a manager, but not necessarily.

I'd go along with Bill Drummond and Maclaren, Tom Watkins with Bros (but not the PSB), Warhol to an extent. But definitely not the old school of management, Don Arden,Peter Grant

also yoko ono, julia lennon and courtney love