Meet music manager Jazz Summers, a man with an unerring ear for a smash hit. He got the United States jitterbugging to Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and got rock fans waving their lighters in the air to The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony. He took The Only Way Is Up to the top of the charts, then married its singer, Yazz. He managed Lisa Stansfield, Soul II Soul, Badly Drawn Boy, Snow Patrol and Scissor Sisters, all the while battling a livid skin condition, acne rosacea, and a rampant drinking problem. Summers tells his colourful life story to the writer Joe Stretch, recalling his early career as an army radiographer at the height of the Swinging Sixties, when he played drums in a beat combo and tried to fake being gay to get discharged from the military, and his globetrotting adventures with Wham! in the 1980s. The people he has encountered along the way may have a different story to tell, but Jazz's version of events is never less than entertaining.
