Too bad Pete Hamm isn't around to explain this one. I believe it describes Pete's problems with how his manager and record company were handling the financial affairs of the group. These guys worked themselves to death and recived next to no financial compensation. When they attempted to get these issues worked out they were essentially advised to live with it. So, as he looks around and sees all other music personalities doing well from his perception he realizes that he will be treated differently because he is a 'star'. So, once again they work and work and were actually getting quite the following in the early 70s on both sides of the ocean. Yet, they continued to not reap financial rewards. They also had disputes about how their product should be handled and ended up finding that they weren't going to get any say-so there either. The final straw came when their last actual group record was ready for distribution and it was found that their escrow account had somehow lost a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Then the brakes caused the distribution of this record to a grinding halt until this could be resolved. As far as I know - it never was. The record never came out and in a fit of total depression Pete ended his life. (Of course there is the conspiracy that Pete actaully went to present an ultimatum to his manager who apparently had organized crime ties - and because they didn't like what Pete had to say decide that they had made plenty of money off of him already and helped him die.)
Too bad Pete Hamm isn't around to explain this one. I believe it describes Pete's problems with how his manager and record company were handling the financial affairs of the group. These guys worked themselves to death and recived next to no financial compensation. When they attempted to get these issues worked out they were essentially advised to live with it. So, as he looks around and sees all other music personalities doing well from his perception he realizes that he will be treated differently because he is a 'star'. So, once again they work and work and were actually getting quite the following in the early 70s on both sides of the ocean. Yet, they continued to not reap financial rewards. They also had disputes about how their product should be handled and ended up finding that they weren't going to get any say-so there either. The final straw came when their last actual group record was ready for distribution and it was found that their escrow account had somehow lost a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Then the brakes caused the distribution of this record to a grinding halt until this could be resolved. As far as I know - it never was. The record never came out and in a fit of total depression Pete ended his life. (Of course there is the conspiracy that Pete actaully went to present an ultimatum to his manager who apparently had organized crime ties - and because they didn't like what Pete had to say decide that they had made plenty of money off of him already and helped him die.)