Word: nemperor
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...tried for months to get him as a client," says Danny Fields, Forbert's manager. "He was always wary. But then one day he called up and said he was 'behind schedule.'" Soon Nemperor Records executive Nat Weiss saw the singer open a show at Trax. Then New York Times critic John Rockwell predicted "huge success, and soon." Both Nemperor contract and public acclaim came shortly thereafter. Forbert made his schedule...
Stanley Clarke (Nemperor; $6.98). Clarke, 23, can play anything from a soft-shoe acoustic bass to taut Spanish classic strings to a wailing electric bass. His background includes classical bass studies and ensemble playing with Stan Getz, Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Imaginative stick work by Drummer Tony Williams provides an effective foil for Clarke over much of his first...
...Nemperor Holdings, the successor to Epstein's Nems Enterprises, was sold by his family in February to London's Triumph Investment Trust. Nemperor collects all the fees for the Beatles' record, stage and film performances, then takes a 25% cut and splits the rest between the Beatles and their companies...
Since Epstein was dead, the Beatles reasoned, why not reverse the sequence of payment? When they proposed to take in the gross themselves and disburse Nemperor's 25%, Triumph went to court. Until the fight is settled, Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd., which produces and markets the Beatle recordings in Britain through the Apple label, has frozen all royalties. The total tied up is now about...
...lost control of Northern Songs when a consortium of financial companies added their 14% to Associated's holdings and made a deal in which it will name four of the six directors. Britain's High Court will decide next month on who should pay whom in the Nemperor case. As for Apple, it is too soon to see whether Klein's pruning will produce profits...
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