Musicians and Bad Management

Here's an entire band who had the misfortune to have poor management:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/badfinger/pages/badfinger_biography.shtml

Look up Billy Joel in the 1970s. He made about $7000 dollars out of the Piano Man album because of his manager... (it sold millions)

Willie Nelson.

Fairly sure the Bay City Rollers were completely exploited by their manager too....

Thanks, you guys are legends! If there are any more (bands or solo artists) that anyone can think of, it'd be appreciated.

Thanks again!

Elvis

TLC

Tina Turner claimed Ike ripped her off, and beat her etc, didn't she?

I'll second that!
A remarkable achievement, really, to turn the young, smouldering, subversive Heartbreak Hotel Elvis into that utterly boring, homogenized Blue Hawaii Elvis! Then the Los Vegas, show biz Elvis! Ugh!

Is it true that Elvis never toured outside the US because Col Tom Parker was a dutch illegal immigrant?

Really? But I thought he was an American Colonel!

Yes Parker was an illegal alien. Some say this is the reason why Elvis never toured outside the US...or at least North America.

I don't care much for any "Elvis" movie, but Parker had it in his contract that he got paid just as much as Elvis, plus a small token amount for some reason...some kind of special producer or something...so he ended up making more than Elvis on each film.

Unbelievable character. Don King's got nothing on him.

Leonard Cohen

He just lost his entire fortune.

Cohen states?-because his financial resources, including the publishing rights to his songs, reportedly have been gutted, leading him to file suit against his longtime former manager, Kelley Lynch, for gross misappropriation of funds [3]. Cohen stated that he has been deprived of over US$5 million placed in a fund for his retirement, leaving only $150,000. Cohen was sued in turn by other former business associates. These events have put him in the public spotlight, including a cover feature on him with the headline "Devastated!" in Canada's Maclean's magazine. In March of 2006, Cohen won the civil suit, and was awarded US$9 million by a Los Angeles County superior court. Lynch, however, had completely ignored the suit, and did not respond to a subpoena issued for her financial records [4]. As a result it has been widely reported that Cohen may never be able to collect the cash [5].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen