Burt Sugarman is often seen seated behind the plate at Dodger Stadium next to his wife, Mary Hart of “Entertainment Tonight” fame, but he is also responsible for shaking up rock 'n' roll on TV with 'The Midnight Special.'
.” Clips of David Bowie’s final performance of his 1980 show at the Marquee Club in London are offered, including his duet with Marianne Faithfull on “I Got You Babe.”
“They were so controlling of your image,” Ronstadt said in a phone interview. “If you did the Glen Campbell show, they gave you dresses to wear. It didn’t go down so well with me. On some shows you would have to follow plate twirlers or an act with an orangutan.” Sugarman bought the time from NBC and wrangled the program’s advertisers himself. He pitched a General Motors executive named
Even Kirshner, never a cutting-edge figure in the music industry, grew frustrated with anxious ABC executives who interfered with the program. He went out on his own to launch his syndicated “Rock Concert” series that ran for eight years.
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