Not many rock managers become famous in their own right. Brian Epstein earned his place in Beatles lore for his formative star-making, tender devotion and terrible merchandising deals, but otherwise it’s the aggressively flamboyant characters who burst from music-biography footnotes: raging Led Zeppelin behemoth Peter Grant, for example, or “Colonel Tom” Parker, the carnival ringmaster attached to Elvis Presley. So it’s no wonder Danny Goldberg was perplexed when a teenager at 2011’s Occupy Wall Street protests asked to take his picture. Goldberg suggested that the boy had mistaken him for somebody else. No, he said. “I know who you are. You used to work with Kurt Cobain.”
Goldberg and his company Gold Mountain had taken on the management of Cobain’s band Nirvana — scruffy avatars
