no Epstein was a visionary manager. not a great business man, but you can't have everything.

parker was weird.

But they were both smarter than evrybody else around them. its easy to see a field for creative development when somebody else has pointed it out. Thery were the guys who pointed out the potential of markreting rock acts to the world.

its worth pointing out that neither of them had to knock anybody down to get control of their artists. In both cases there was hardly a queue forming to be the manager of Presley or The Beatles.

Also both guys were working in an industry that was going through massive changes. they couldn't really have been expected to do any better.

they were human. They had their limitations.