Biography | Jake Berry                          Glen Hinshaw

To think how close the world was to not having Jake Berry in the business. But fate intervened at an English pub and decades later the man Terry Lowe, publisher of Pro Lights and Staging News, calls the "top, top guy," is dominating the field with no end in sight.

Hilarious, forthcoming, yet oddly ego-free in a business made of egos, Berry got a few moments to chat with us about his career between working the current U2 tour and consulting on the Janet Jackson tour.

Berry considers himself "lucky"-the word comes up constantly in conversation; but no one is that lucky. Along his strange, twisted journey he figured out how to do a few things right, and the fact that today he does a lot of things right is how our story ends.

How it begins however (as with all the better English stories), is with a a good three day drunk.