Al Bunetta, the colorful manager, record-label chief and music-business raconteur who'd worked with John Prine for more than four decades, died Sunday night after being diagnosed recently with cancer. He was 72.

Friends say Bunetta had complained just two weeks ago of "a little stomach problem." That turned out to be pancreatic cancer. After being admitted to Saint Thomas Hospital March 12, his health quickly deteriorated. Bunetta devoted his career to artists he admired, and there were none he admired more than John Prine and the late Steve Goodman, whom he started managing in 1971 while he was working for Paul Anka's management company CMA.

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