How did Beatl manager Brian Epste’s gayns affect his visn of the group’s potential?

Contents:

• THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY
• DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

THE BEATL (AND CYNTHIA LENNON) DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEIR MANAGER, BRIAN EPSTE, WAS GAY

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“It didn’t occur to then that Brian was gay, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote.

DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?

In the early sixti if you were gay you kept secret. Gays were lled ‘queers’ and were disliked and diststed by many — there was a huge amount of prejudice agast them. Cynthia Lennon said that at the time, John Lennon was ‘horrified’ by the ia of homosexualy.

“John was a hundred percent heterosexual and, like most lads at that time, horrified by the ia of homosexualy, ” Cynthia Lennon wrote the same memoir. A furtive acknowledgement—a man’s nod, to be precise—ultimately land Brian Samuel Epste, the gay, elst son of a proment Jewish fay Liverpool, England, jail.

Epste, who died at 32 of an accintal dg overdose, was a tortured gay man who was bowed by the weight and import of his wealthy Jewish fay. “I’m very proud that I’ve spent hours nversatn wh folks like Sid Bernste and Nat Weiss, ” says Tiwary of the Jewish producer who helped brg The Beatl to Ameri and the gay lawyer who was Epste’s greatt nfidant. “ ‘What gay clubs did you take Brian to?

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

“I believed that my own willpower was the bt thg wh which to overe my homosexualy, ” Epste lamented a letter to his lawyer, after he was qutned by police. Tiwary said, “Nat was really able to explite that for me, bee he was also gay.

” On the flip si, Epste’s homosexualy allowed him to have a broad visn for the band. Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much. “The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate. And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty.

“Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr. “It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man.