John Sinclair (The MC5)

In 1966, John Sinclair was as radical a rock manager as you could get. And for Detroit's proto-punkers The MC5 he was almost too radical. When Sinclair wanted to bog down the music with too much political revolutionary rhetoric, they opted to be taken under the spell of future Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau. When Sinclair found out about the betrayal, he told the band: ' You guys wanted to be bigger than the Beatles, and I wanted you to be bigger than Chairman Mao.'