By Bob Mehr MALIBU, Calif. — In December 1977, in an exceptionally rare move, Rolling Stone put a producer and a manager on its cover: Peter Asher, a bespectacled, copper-haired Brit ...

Today, decades down the road from those heady days, his storied life unfolds in detail in David Jack’s extensive biography. The publisher’s listing notes that over 12 years of research has gone into ...