Let's Play a Round of... Guess the Rainmaker

As you may have heard, RAINMAKERS 40, our compendium chronicling the 40 executives who’ve defined the music industry over the past four decades, will be landing on desks and doorsteps with a resonant thud in early December.

Until then, let’s test your knowledge of music-biz history. We’ll start with an easy one: Take a gander at the illustration above (by the brilliant Sam Viviano) and see if you can identify this 40 for 40 all-star. Here’s a hint: This mogul’s mother was said to have been the inspiration for Pussy Galore, the glamorous trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Goldfinger.

If you need a minute to light a spliff and think about it, we’ll wait.