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Alexandre Despallieres was this year due to stand trial for the murder of his former partner Peter Ikin, a music executive, whose loyal coterie of friends included Sir Elton John and Sir Rod Stewart.
Alun Owen, Lionel Bart and Brian Epstein at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in January 1964. Photograph: Sayle/Mirrorpix
The story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the solos or thrashed the drums. In the UK at the time, that most often meant straight white men, as it did in the US. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the ones who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized margin, gay men.
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