87: Music exec Marcus Spence gives a backstage tour on how to make it in the industry

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Spence is one of Rachael's best friends and Senoir VP of A&R at Mosley Music Group. Having worn many hats, Marcus is full of wisdom for aspiring artists and has worked with the likes of Justin Timberlake, One Republic, Ariana Grade, Chris Cornell, and of course, his (older) nephew, Timbaland. Tim plucked Marcus right out of college to come work with the family business at his label, which was a joint venture with Interscope at the time. Marcus knew he would either sink or swim -- and he soon proved he was a force to be reckoned with. His journey is an inspiring one and he shares a couple of his favorite stories on this episode of Be Here For A While. From his first meeting at Interscope with Jimmy Iovine, to developing Ryan Tedder into One Republic, to traveling the world with Tim on Justin Timberlake's tour, to upcoming new music teases with Sam Smith, if you're at all into music, you're gonna geek out hard. Follow Marcus at @mspencebc! Get $20 off Rachael's favorite Away carry-on suitcase! Just use promo code: BEHERE at www.awaytravel.com/behere Need a gift for the man in your life this holiday season? Man Crates offers over 100 hand-curated gift collections for EVERY type of guy: from the rugged outdoorsman to the sports fanatic and everything in between!! Get 5% off at mancrates.com/BEHERE and own the holidays!

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0:00.0	Hello friends.
0:14.0	Hello friends.
0:15.4	Welcome back to their episode to be here for a while.
0:17.8	I have one of my very good friends
0:20.3	and one of my most accomplished friends on the podcast today and it's something a little bit different than I've done interviews or chatted with people before about he is a music executive and we met probably nine years ago and I will remember
0:39.8	exactly how we met why are my stories always like something like embarrassing
0:44.2	happens to me or sad. I was dating this guy and he worked in music as well but he
0:52.1	and I got to be fair on his part,
0:53.9	like we had hung out in a few weeks, so whatever.
0:56.7	We were all at the same thing, or I guess I was there
0:59.5	at the same thing with this guy, and Marcus,
1:02.3	who's my guest, came to meet him and and this guy was
1:06.1	talking about like you know this Marcus you know he works with Timberland like he's the
1:10.2	head of his label pull blah blah it was like whatever, why are you not paying attention to me, buddy?
1:16.4	And Marcus comes to meet up.
1:18.1	Marcus is adorable.
1:19.2	He's a big teddy bear of a human with an adorable laugh.
1:22.0	And so we all go out to the next place together and all
1:27.7	a sudden I look over and the guy was dating was making out with some blonde chick and I was
1:32.4	like well all right I guess I'll talk to Marcus now. was making out with some blonde chick and I was like,
1:33.0	well, all right, I guess I'll talk to Marcus now.
1:35.0	And Marcus saved me and we just like had fun and then,
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