Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'
During his four decade-long career, Barry Manilow has been a master of the singles chart, with dozens of top 40 hits, including his most famous “Mandy” and “Copacabana,” a multiple Grammy winner, a consummate showman and a good sport who’s as likely to mock his own seventies fashions as he is to play himself in a TV sitcom, like he did in 2003 on Will & Grace about the difficulties of public life, the new music business, and why he would never, ever be a contestant on a reality singing show.
The Hollywood Reporter: You’re no longer contractually bound to a record company, how you go about promoting an album in this day and age?
Barry Manilow: This was the big question because the album is on my own label, [Stilleto], but we needed a hand distributing it. So I would ask the people that I met over the last couple of months, “How do you sell a record these days?” Everything is diffferent, and it seems to have changed a lot over the last year. When we were selling records, we fought for room on the top shelves in Tower Records, but there’s no record stores… So you need to have people working for you who live and breathe on the internet, and that’s a bunch of young people. Between my company, Universal and Fontana I felt very safe with that batch of young people.
THR: Lindsey Buckingham mentioned in a recent interview how difficult it would have been to make an album like Rumours now. If you were starting out today, how would you approach a music career? Is there anything you know now that you wish you knew then?
Manilow: You have to be strong. Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down. I keep reading about people who want to be famous -- it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
THR: How did you avoid those trappings of fame?
Manilow: I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music. And it never really got me. I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Who hasn't heard and loved the songs "Copacabana", "Mandy", and "Looks Like we Made It"? Well, maybe a few in the world, especially in the younger generations. But, Barry Manilow is no stranger to those who were around to hear him in the height of his
During his four decade-long career, Barry Manilow has been a master of the singles chart, with dozens of top 40 hits, including his most famous “Mandy” and “Copacabana,” a multiple Grammy winner, a consummate showman and a good sport who's as likely to
Manilow notes that when his first chart-topping single, Mandy (not his original composition), came out in 1974, "it threw me for a loop — and that was after 10 years of writing songs for commercials and conducting and arranging for Bette Midler and
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow will perform along with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Aug. 25, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Manilow is best known for hit songs such as "Could It Be Magic," "Mandy," "Can't
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