Tom Wolfe
broke, because these characters don't even pay you until"*#tlkling8" you've had three
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mini boot uk because they know they don't have to. You start yelling for the money and they tell you "What-ya mean, I have all these records coming back from the retailers, and what about my right to return records and blah-blah!" What are you going to do? Sue twenty guys in twenty different courts in the United States?
'They look at everything as a product. They don't care about the work and sweat you put into a record. They respect me now because I keep turning out hits, and after that they become sort of honest . . . in their own decayed way.'
Where does a man find friends, comrades, anything, in a world like that? They resent his youth. They resent his success. But it is no better with the kids. He is so much more mature and more . . . eminent . .. they all want to form 'the father thing' with him. Or else they want to fawn over him, cozen him, cajole, fall down before him, whistle, shout, stomp, bang him on the head - anything to get his attention and get 'the break', just one chance. Or one more chance. Spector can't go near the Brill Building, the centre of the music business, because the place is crawling with kids with winkle-picker shoes cracking in the folds who made one hit record five years ago and still can't realize that they are now, forever, in oblivion. They crawl all over the place, the way the small-time balding fatty promoters and managers used to in the days when A. J. Liebling wrote about the place as the Jollity Build-
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