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Watts’ biggest triumph — an album cover with a “Silence of the Lambs”-like mask for one-hit wonders Quiet Riot — also represented a low point in his business acumen.
“When I met them, they were practicing in a hand-made studio next to a Midas brake store,” Watts remembers. “I thought: ‘These guys are not going anywhere.’ I did the job for just $2,000 (with no royalties). The album went triple platinum. They sold that image on everything. Just when MTV started, I walked by the television to see a Quiet Riot studio concert. The camera panned audience ...