Fame can be a tricky thing

Manilow, touring again, knows pitfalls of media attention. Last year’s ‘15 Minutes’ takes on topic.

For the past seven years, Barry Manilow’s life revolved around his Las Vegas residency, first at the former Las Vegas Hilton, and then for nearly two years at Paris Las Vegas.

In December, a day after wrapping his tenure on the Strip, he underwent hip surgery, a painful, complicated procedure from which he has recovered “about 90 percent.”

Now, the mega-selling Manilow (80 million records worldwide and counting) is back on the road playing three dates every other weekend — enough, he says, to keep his band together and keep him fresh without sending him back to the operating room.

One of those stops will be Sunday, when he visits Chastain Park Amphitheatre.

As for those Vegas years, Manilow paused briefly when asked if he misses his regular gig.

“It was great. But do I miss it? It was fun and I don’t remember one bad show or moment. We would come off the stage and celebrate every night,” he said in a phone interview this week. “They had warned me that Vegas audiences would be different, but I never had one of them. We had beautiful shows in both casinos.” Any chance of a return? “When we were done at Paris, that was as good as I could do. We had put together a beautiful production. If I had gone to another [casino], I don’t think I could have topped that, so no ... I don’t think so at this point,” Ma-