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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/music-box-hosts-movie-about-local-mus
 ic-manager-david-spero-and-talk-by-spero-and-filmmaker/
SUMMARY:Music Box Hosts Movie About Local Music Manager David Spero and Tal
 k by Spero and Filmmaker
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 1/23 @ 7:30PM\nDavid Spero first became known to the wide
 r northeast Ohio music community as one of the founding air personalities 
 at WMMS\, just as it was beginning to influence the area’s entire music 
 scene. Before that\, as a teenager he’d been an errand boy for his fathe
 r Herman Spero\, producer of the syndicated Cleveland-based music program 
 The Upbeat Show\, gaining a valuable inside education.\nSpero left WMMS to
  manage Michael Stanley\, and helping him form the Michael Stanley Band wh
 ich he managed for several years before turning management over to Belkin 
 Productions. Later on he spent more than a decade in the film industry bef
 ore returning to music management at the request of his friend Joe Walsh. 
 Since then he’s worked as manager or tour manager with an array of signi
 ficant artists\, such as Harry Nilsson\, Cat Stevens and Bad Company\, whi
 le still based here in Northeast Ohio. (He also served for a while as educ
 ation and programming director at the Rock Hall.) His released a memoir ca
 lled A Life in the Wings in 2022.\nHis colorful\, wide-ranging career has 
 now been captured on film by filmmaker Pat Donovan called The Heart of Roc
 k and Roll: A Cleveland Rocks Story. The Music Box Supper Club is hosting 
 a movie night and discussion where the film will be screened and Spero and
  Donovan will talk about it afterwards.\nAdmission is free\, but please ma
 ke a reservation. Doors open at 6pm for dinner\; film and discussion start
  at 7:30pm.\n[mappress mapid="2593"]
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