Holly Stephey & Beatles executive Ken Mansfield Stumbling on Open Ground Love, God, Cancer, and Roll

Feb. 12, 2013 - PRLog -- Holly Stephey talks to Ken Mansfield February 13, 2013 on Red Velvet Media Blogtalk Radio at 2:30 pm PST, 4:30 CST,5:30 pm EST and about his new Book Stumbling on Open Ground: Love, God, Cancer, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.


GRAMMY® Award-winning former Beatles executive and music industry icon Ken Mansfield chronicles a deeply personal journey of faith and struggle in his highly-anticipated fourth title, Stumbling on Open Ground: Love, God, Cancer, and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Revealing ongoing trials with two bouts of cancer, Mansfield’s memoir thoughtfully frames his spiritual struggle and physical pain in the light of ultimate healing and triumph. Sharing personal prayers and honest insight alongside remarkable moments from his storied music career, he confronts his failing body, a faith that both falters and soars, and the questions that aren’t supposed to be asked but need to be answered.Ken Mansfield’s legendary career in the music industry includes tenures as the U.S. manager of the Beatles’
Apple Records, an executive at Capitol Records, a vice president at MGM Records, and president of Andy Williams’ Barnaby Records (CBS Records), among numerous influential roles. He has worked with such artists as the Beach Boys, James Taylor, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell and Lou Rawls.

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Instrumental in launching country music’s “Outlaw” movement in the 1970s, Mansfield was involved in the careers of Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, among others.  Since devoting his life to Christ more than two decades ago, Mansfield is now an ordained minister and sought-after speaker. He appears at churches, special events and colleges across the nation and has authored The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay (B&H); The White Book: The Beatles, the Bands, the Biz: An Insiders Look at an Era  and Between Wyomings.Stumbling on Open Ground: Love, God, Cancer, and Rock ‘n’ Roll a 256-page trade paper title, will be available January 15 from Thomas Nelson.