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Managers tend to play major roles in the careers of their acts. In the case of bands like Led Zeppelin, Skyhooks, and INXS, their public image was more that of their respective managers than the band members themselves.

Here are 12 examples where managers changed the careers of their clients.

After the Number 11 chart success in America of the Listen Like Thieves album and the Top 5 breakthrough of the What You Need single (1985), Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss started working on a follow-up where each track had the potential to be a single.

However, according to manager Chris Murphy, when he played the tapes of Kick to the Head of their US record label Atlantic, Doug Morris, he listened throughout, his eyes closed, feet on the table.

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He told Murphy, “I’ll give you a million dollars to go and record another album. This is not happening, this is shit.”

The heads of Mercury in Europe and Warner Music Australia had been equally unimpressed. “What the fuck are Andrew and Michael doing?” said the Mercury guy.

Murphy refused the $1 million dollar offer. Instead, he held a secret meeting with Atlantic’s radio promo people and sold them Kick. They were impressed enough, and Murphy pulled together a sell-out tour of US colleges.

Kick cracked the college charts, picking up other radio as well, and Atlantic was forced to schedule the album for an October 1987 release.

With hits such as New Sensation, Never Tear Us Apart, Devil Inside and Need You Tonight, the album went on to shift six million copies stateside and most recently had 20 million worldwide.

Murphy said later: “I risked every dollar they had and every dollar I had on that tour. If it failed, there would have been a mutiny. It would have been the end of everything, and I knew it.”