Most overrated music oligarchs: Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun.
There was an anecdote about Jerry in, I think, Friday’s article in the WSJ about the Rascals, who are having a reunion on TV (Felix is 70!), and how he refused at first to release “Groovin” as a single, saying, “you’re a rock and roll band, WTF are these Latin bongos doing there?”, and Murray the K had to intervene and persuade him.