An Improbable Journey (Music, Money, and the Law)

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An insiderā€™s view on blockbuster deal-making and part cultural tour de force, An Improbable Journey is a one-of-a-kind, deeply textured account of how some of the greatest artists of all time pushed to realize their greatest ambitionsā€”with the help of Charles Lubar.

The year was 1971. Thirty-year-old Charles Lubar, a Washington, D.C.ā€“born Harvard Law School graduate with a two-and-a-half-year deep dive in the Chief Counselā€™s Office of the Internal Revenue Service recently behind him, was floundering in Nairobi, Kenya where he had come to seek the kind of high-stakes adventures one could never find at a major law firm in the U.S. But with his entrepreneurial hopes quashed in Nairobi by an environment that hardly wrapped its arms around outsiders, Indians being expelled from Kenya, and Idi Aminā€”the ruthless despotā€”on the brink of taking over in neighboring Uganda and soon to wreak havoc throughout the region, Lubar decided to pick up his stakes. With a sense of timing that would come to his aid again and again throughout his life, the young lawyer opted to make his next home in the UK. Little did he know that he would soon be swimming hard and fast in 1970s London during a cultural surge of film, television, music, and the stage.

ā€œHired off the streetā€ by two American lawyers in Londonā€”the brassy entertainment lawyer Irwin Margulies and the corporate transactional lawyer Barry Sterlingā€”Lubar could never have predicted that his work would soon put him front and center at some of the biggest moments with some of the biggest names in showbiz. From the James Bond franchise to Linda Lovelace and ā€œDeep Throatā€; from Jim Henson and The Muppets to Michael Jackson and the Beatles; from behind the Iron Curtain to the islands of the Netherlands Antilles, Lubarā€™s rare knowledge of the tax codes spanning Europe and the U.S. made him an indispensable figure to creatives trying to make their financial lives work on both sides of the Atlantic.

His list of clients goes on and on: Bill Graham, John Cleese, Santana, Diana Ross, Frank Oz, Chuck Traynor, Marilyn Chambers, Barbara Bach, Jane Seymour, Shakira, and Enrique Iglesias. Many turned to Lubar in real need of his assistance at the very prime (and sometimes, nadir) of their careers. Lubarā€™s bona fides would even land him a spot on the US-UK Fulbright Commission, as President of the Yale Club of London, and a Managing Partner in London of one of the major international law firms. An Improbable Journey shows a risk-taker with his finger living right on the cultural pulse of a moment.

This book title, An Improbable Journey (Music, Money, and the Law), ISBN: 9781637585528, by Charles G. Lubar, published by Post Hill Press (June 20, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Charles G. Lubar
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Post Hill Press (June 20, 2023)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781637585528
ISBN-10:
1637585527
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8.32oz
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5.5" x 8.25" x 0.6"
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