Peter Mensch

Peter Mensch (BA from Brandeis, MA from U of Chicago) worked for Cliff Burnside for six months before going to work at Leber-Krebs management as Aerosmith's tour accountant. While on tour with Aerosmith, Peter met and befriended AC/DC who asked him to manage th in 1979 in conjunction with Leber/Krebs. Mensch then added The Scorpions and Def Leppard and promptly moved to the UK to service all three acts better. After a falling out with Leber/Krebs, Mensch and Burnstein started Q Prime on April 1, 1982 with Def Leppard as their sole client. In 1984, Q Prime started managing Metallica In the mid-1990s, Q Prime managed the Smashing Pumpkins. Toward the end of the 1990s, Q Prime began managing the Red Hot Chili Peppers, In 1989, Q Prime served as the album manager/tour consultant to the Rolling Stones on the Steel Wheels album and tour. In 1998, Madonna hired Q Prime to manage her music career.