Reviews

"He was the best record hustler I’d ever seen"

Ronnie Hawkins

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“In the Canadian music industry, it was always 6 degrees of separation to Nick Panaseiko”

Kelly Jay of Crowbar

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“Nick was definitely driven. Bill Graham was driven in the same kind of way. He had the same kind of drive, ambition and energy to wake up, pick up the phone and just go all day. Nick had it.”

Graham Lear (drummer REO Speedwagon, Santana, Gino Vanelli)

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"Nick Panaseiko has led a remarkable life filled with adventure, fueled by a love of music and the music industry. A promotion man extraordinaire, Panaseiko is also an accomplished raconteur from the old school who loves to tell often hilarious stories of the stars he has worked with and what he was willing to do to promote a record."

Rob Bowman, Grammy Award-winning Professor of Music

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"While much has been written about the world-changing music scene of London, England, writer Bob Klanac’s Promo Man cleverly focuses on the relatively less picked-over music scene of London, Ontario as a microcosm for the story of rock and roll itself.

 

Klanac weaves a compelling narrative, expertly guiding us through the trials, errors, and pioneering successes of legendary Canadian music promoter Nick Panaseiko, deftly transporting us back to the swinging 60s and heavy 70s in a smaller pond no less populated by big fish from The Who and the Stones to Queen and The Supremes.

 

Klanac has written an engaging and fascinating portrait of Panaseiko, the Promo Man next door who became a big-time player in a burgeoning music industry that literally grew out from under his feet."

Paul Myers, author of It Ain't Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, and A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio and Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy.

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