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Mel Bush: The Man Who Hired The World

Mick Gold, Rock On The Road (Futura), April 1976

A PROMOTER IS THE middleman between a musician and an audience. A promoter hires a venue, books an act, organises the publicity, is responsible for seeing that everyone gets paid, and tries to emerge with a profit at the end.

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