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ical education, thinking I wanted to coach, but after a semester real- ized that wasn’t what I wanted to do. I got a business degree, because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. While in business, I minored in communication and worked at the radio station. I had the midnight to 3 am shift. Back then, we played Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, that    40 hits, we were playing quote ‘progressive rock.’” Marion became the station’s music director by his junior year and ran the station during his senior year. It was during these years that he ran the social committee, which at the time was the concert committee. “I said, sure, what do you do?” Marion asked the president of the student as-  “They had a pretty good budget, and so we got Billy Joel.” Marion stayed at the university to earn an MBA and became the program advisor when that indi- vidual left the position right after Marion earned his undergraduate degree. More shows came, in- cluding Boz Skaggs, The Commodores, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Major acts at the time to be sure, but Marion, like a band ready to hit the stage, was just warming up.


The Boss “See that poster over there?” Marion said while pointing to the wall. “Springsteen poster. If you look closely, you see it says tickets were $8.50 and $9.50. That was 1981 that I booked Bruce Spring- steen into MSU. I liked Bruce Springsteen, but when I saw his show … I was hooked. I have seen Springsteen over 25 times. I am one of those idiots … I can see him over and over and over and over.” You book The Boss, and chances are you get on


that fast track pretty fast. In Marion’s case, it hap- pened that same year when he got a call from an agent he had worked with when Marion booked The Pointer Sisters in Starkville. “It was about          agency called Regency Artists. They were small- er, but handled The Pointer Sisters and some oth- ers. They were looking to expand and asked if I would be interested in coming out to Los Angeles and being an agent. Uh, yeah! So, I moved from Starkville, Mississippi, to Beverly Hills. I went out and was an agent.” He stayed on the job as Regency, combined with a director’s agency and an acting agency to


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MARION’S STORY By R.V. Baugus


become Triad Artists, at the time the fourth largest in the country. “We handled Men at Work, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Robert Palmer,” Marion said. “I was the agent who handled Virginia down to Texas. The joke was that I handled everybody who talked like I do. With my accent, I knew what they were saying, so I would interpret.” You can take Marion out of Mississippi, but you can’t take the Mis- sissippi out of Marion. He returned home in 1988 to weigh career op- tions, while at the time working in the family business doing wholesale electrical supply.


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