Book DetailsPsuedonym of: Douglas Naylor Howell, a Sunday Pictoral and Daily Mirror journalist.
Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co Ltd
Publication Date: 1958
Fictional Artist:
Artist: Margaret Love
Genre: Pop
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: Connie Francis
Jacket Blurb: N/A. However, Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In biography, contains the following entry:
There was even a novel, the A&R Man, set in the crooked world of record companies. Writer Robert Hancock (a pseudonym for Doughlast Naylor Howell) described the dodgy dealings perpretrated by Richard Hunter, an Oxford Don who, through an old school connection, becomes A&R man for Rex Records, the biggest company in the pop field. Having discovered a girl signer of no particular talent, Hunter claims a percentage of her earnings and finagles himself a songwriting credit and royalty.
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