The Velvet Mafia: the gay men who helped shape music in the 60s
Alun Owen, Lionel Bart and Brian Epstein at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in January 1964. Photograph: Sayle/Mirrorpix The story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the solos or thrashed the drums. In the UK at the time, that most often meant straight white men, as it did in the US. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the ones who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized margin, gay men. From sharehousing with AC/DC to comforting Sharon...
Source: theguardian.com