I'm going to share with you the memories of an amazing man, Bill Quaterrero, known in the record industry as Phil Kew.

He was an amazing guy and everybody who knew him loved him. Hello and

welcome to Best Case Worst Case this is Jim Clemente,

retired FBI Profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer producer of criminal minds.

Brancy can't be with me today, but she certainly shares the sentiments that I'm about to share

with you. Today I'm going to be talking about a good

friend of mine who passed away last week. His name is Phil Quaterrero. Everybody in the music industry

knows him as Phil Kue. He's a distinctive guy, a diminutive fellow whose personality and willingness to help people

made him a giant.

I've known him for seven years,

but he has a long and starry career.

And I'll just give you a little bit of an indication of who he is and what he has accomplished.

Bill has been a record executive in the music industry for a very long time.

In fact, my brother Peter worked with him at A&M Records.

It was both of their first jobs in 1978.

He then worked at RCA, Island Records, and Arista for the first half of the 80s, and then he went on to be the lead executive at Virgin Records.

He spent about half a decade at the helm of Warner Brothers and after that turned to a multi-year run in

EMI where he launched a number of careers over that time.

Bill Q was quoted by Billboard Records as saying,

I loved helping an artist's dream come true.

And that is the perfect way to describe what he did and why he did it.

He was the guy who helped break Paul Abdul with Spice Girls, Lincoln Park, and so many other mega stars.

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