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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
Description: In the second episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with Tony Zanetta. In the late 1960s, Zanetta worked in Off-Off-Broadway theater and ultimately landed a role playing the Andy Warhol character in Pork, an absurdist play based on Warhol’s phone recordings. Zanetta followed the cast to London where he befriended David Bowie who subsequently appointed him president of his management company, Main Man, and Bowie’s direct point of contact in America for the Ziggy Stardust tour (1972).With his involvement with Bowie, Zanetta was responsible for developing acts under the Main Man umbr...