King and I Thirty-Six Years With My Client, Friend, and Burden, Luciano Pavarotti The Untold Story

"What was it like to work with Luciano? There's no simple answer.... There's the strapping young singer I met in New York in 1967, when I rode out to the airport with him in a taxi to discuss taking him on as a public relations client. There's the sweating tenor in massive evening dress, clutching a creased handkerchief and basking with shut-eyed relief in the applause at his first U.S. recital. There's the voice I would hear on the phone many times a day, wanting to talk about the next concert or ask if someone in my office could please run over to his apartment with a pound or two of fresh tomatoes.... There's the self-satisfied star in the front of the limo after a concert, quizzing us in the back about the details of his schedule for the coming weeks, delighted every time he's able to catch us out. There's the thwarted lover, threatening suicide after the decampment of one of his girlfriends, and the shrewd businessman whom I tutored in the importance of a dollar, holding out for another half a million for some glamorous television project.... I worked with Luciano Pavarotti, the greatest tenor in the world, for thirty-six years of my life. Sometimes he was a great, great client. Sometimes he acted like he ruled the world around him and everyone in it, including me. Sometimes he was a close and generous friend. Sometimes he was a real pain in the ass. But all in all, we had a pretty good run."Breslin, Herbert is the author of 'King and I Thirty-Six Years With My Client, Friend, and Burden, Luciano Pavarotti The Untold Story', published 2004 under ISBN 9780385509725 and ISBN 0385509723.