Would You Trust This Man With Your Songs

Step behind the scenes of the music business with Sam Trust, a visionary publisher whose career carried him from the early days of BMI to the Beatles catalogue, Capitol Records, ATV Music, Killer Tracks, and beyond.

Would You Trust This Man with Your Songs? is a sharp, funny, and revealing collection of true stories from an era when music publishing was powered by handshakes, instinct, nerve, and unforgettable characters. Trust shares firsthand accounts of the people, deals, battles, and breakthroughs that shaped modern music licensing and publishing-long before streaming, downloads, YouTube, and AI changed the industry forever.

From his unlikely beginnings as a young trumpeter to meetings with industry giants, royal encounters, high-stakes catalogue acquisitions, and the creation of systems that helped define television and film music royalties, Trust offers a rare insider's view of how songs became business, how music became money, and how relationships often mattered as much as talent.

Both entertaining and educational, this memoir-in-stories captures a colorful music world filled with legendary artists, brilliant publishers, tough negotiators, and larger-than-life personalities. For music lovers, songwriters, publishers, entertainment professionals, and anyone curious about the hidden machinery behind hit songs, Sam Trust's journey is a candid and memorable tour through the golden age of the music business.