
Once A King, Now A Prince:
Thank you for taking the time to investigate my older blog posts about my memoir, “Once A King, Now A Prince.” I appreciate you for doing so.
MUSIC AGENT MEMOIR: WHAT CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES MISS ABOUT ROCK AND ROLL
By Ira Blacker on June 19, 2026

A music agent memoir is not written from the spotlight. It is written from the phone, the routing sheet, the hotel bill, the half-empty weekday that had to be turned into a profitable night, and the instinct that told me a smaller room could sometimes do more for a band than a bigger hall. I was not standing at the microphone. I was trying to make sure the artist looked like he belonged there before the public fully understood what was happening. That is why this rock and roll story is different from most celebrity autobiographies. The artist can tell you what it felt like to hear the crowd roar. I can tell you what had to be done before there was a crowd big enough to roar. In my world, a career was not built only by talent. It was built by judgment, timing, routing, pressure, nerve, and sometimes…
UNTOLD ROCK HISTORY: KISS & TELL PT. 3
By Ira Blacker on June 25, 2026

If A Tree Falls In A Forest: A Rock And Roll Book Extra When telling my stories that are part of the untold side of rock history, I hope you will be informed and entertained as you read things you were unaware of as a fan, and would not have been able to read elsewhere. Here are some new, but old, tidbits for you, and some of the untold rock history that came from living on the business side of the music. Untold Rock History From The Other Side Of The Desk One of the stories that belongs to untold rock history, and that you rarely see in the rock and roll stories or memoirs of others, comes from the other side of the desk. Most rock memoirs are written by musicians. The agent’s side is rarely seen, which is why this kind of untold rock history matters. One story…






