After several decades in the business, manager Ron Weisner has experienced it all: tears, tantrums, fireworks, egos and the usual trimmings of life in Hollywood’s fast lane. It’s made for a compelling tell-all memoir, entitled ‘Listen Out Loud: Music Managing McCartney, Madonna and Michael Jackson’.
….In a career littered with big names, Weisner will most likely be remembered as the man who propelled Michael Jackson to greatness in the early 80s. Unlike those hard yards with Madonna, Weisner’s working relationship with Michael was much more fulfilling, with the manager going so far as to consider him as “almost like a son to me”.
It was also Weisner’s idea to create ‘mini-movies’ for Michael’s singles, effectively making him the first African-American artist to break the MTV barrier and changing the face of pop to boot.
“He was not one of us,” Weisner says of Michael. “He was like an alien. He was the greatest entertainer of our generation and I don’t think anyone will top him.”
Michael was a dream client during the peak of his fame in the 1980s; if a little attention-seeking. Weisner accompanied him on trips to Disneyland and was even dragged out of bed by Michael to go watch Liberace perform.
Weisner acted on Michael’s many whims as his manager and even though their working relationship foundered, he maintained a protective eye over the star.
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