In Keith's book, Life, at pp. 479-480 in the regular hard copy, Keith is talking about the rigors of the business in terms of their difficulties in getting their due share from promoters and here addressing the late Bill Graham. The Rupert, Keith is talking about, is Rupert Loewenstein, one of their business advisors:


The Stones only started to make money through touring in the '8os-the tour of '8r-'82 was the start of the big stadium venues and broke box office records for rock shows. Bill Graham u,as the promoter. He was the king of rock concerts at the time, a big backer of the counterculture, of unknown artists and good causes, as well as bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. But that last tour was a rather dodgy period-a lot of bits were going missing. The mathematics weren't adding up.To put it more simply, we needed to get control of our shows again. Rupert Loewenstein had reordered the finances so that, basically, we didn't get cheated out of eighty per- cent of the takings, which was nice. On a fifty-dollar ticket, up till then, we'd get three dollars. He set up sponsorship and clawed back merchandising deals. He cleaned out the scams and fiddles, or most of them. He made us viable. I loved Bill dearly, he was a wonderful guy, but his head was beginning to turn. He was getting too big for his boots, as they all do when they've been doing it for too long. Separate from Bill, his business partners were stealing money from us and openly bragging about it-one of them telling how he bought a house with it. The inside machinations are nothing to do with me. Eventually I m going to end up on stage playing. That's why I pay other people. The whole point is that I can only do what I do if I have the space to do it in. That's why you work with people like Bill Graham or Michael Cohl or whoever. They take this weight off your shoulders. but you're going to get a good cut of it. All I've got to do is have some- body on my staff like Rupert or fane who makes sure at the end of the day that the right shekels end up in the right pot. There was a big meeting on one of the islands when we threw in our lot with Michael Cohl, and he then did allour tours up to A Bigger Bang in zoo6.

Who is Keith talking about here? Bill Graham had many “partners” — who is Keith referring to who scored a house from over-reaches on the Stones' moneys?

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Keith might have been referring to Larry Magid of Electric Factory Concerts.