Meet the Chelsea Football Club director who represents Madonna, Foo Fighters and Mark Ronson
Barbara Charone's PR firm MBC represents stars including Madonna, Keith Richards and Mark Ronson, as well as Depeche Mode and the Foo Fighters
The Chicagoan moved to The Who's hometown of London several years later, in 1974, and found it was a similar story. "When I first came to England and I started to freelance for the NME, the only other women on the paper were a photographer from New York, who was freelance, and the editor's secretary; and there was another British female photographer, Pennie Smith," she explains. "So there were hardly any women.
Written in lockdown, with a little encouragement from former client and fellow recent rock autobiographer Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, the book has beenas an "irrepressible account of nearly five decades in the music industry that's less lurid exposé, more side-stage view of the machinery that allows the show to go on".
It was, she notes, "incredibly exciting to be around and participate in" the rise of such a hit-making phenomenon.Madonna has been represented by Charone for 40 years - a relationship the PR guru is immensely proud of "I wrote that 'when Keith Richards walks in a room, rock 'n' roll walks in after him', which I still think is a great line," she smiles.
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