The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties

‘A superb study of ‘outlaw’ entrepreneurs… detailed and evocative. An extraordinary chronicle of extraordinary times… brilliantly researched, informative and engrossing.’ Record Collector’The overlapping of the musical, theatrical and cinematic worlds is brilliantly captured, as is the way the protagonists gravitated towards - and supported - each other through tough times’ Shindig!‘As a gay man I found this book to be thought-provoking, enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable, and as a music lover I found it to be fascinating and informative… a fantastic read, well written and full of interesting facts about the music industry.’ Louder Than War’[A] brilliant book examining the preponderance of gay men in 1960s pop management’ The Guardian

Darryl W. Bullock is a writer specialising in music history and LGBT issues. He is the author of several books, including Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer (2016), David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music (2017) and The Infamous Cherry Sisters: The Worst Act in Vaudeville (2019) as well as two volumes culled from his blog and internet radio show, The World’s Worst Records. He lives in Bristol with a dog, a cat, an incredibly patient husband and a ridiculously eclectic record collection.