Keith Hagan is a veteran music publicist who worked with Kenny Rogers for 15 years (the two are pictured above). Below, Hagan shares some memories of Rogers, who passed away Friday at the age of 81.
They say you should never meet your heroes, but apparently “they” never met Kenny Rogers. I had the great fortune and pleasure of working with the legendary singer as his publicist since 2005.
He sold more albums and had more radio hits than anyone could realistically count. He was the first artist to bring country music to stadiums.
He had success in film, television and even onstage with his Christmas musical; he published books of his photography and an autobiography, among many, many other professional accomplishments — but even with all of
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