Robert Stigwood
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Manager/producer Robert Stigwood leveraged his involvement with key British pop and rock stars of the '60s into a series of music-oriented movies in the '70s. At his height, his projects achieved a synergy in which recording artists he managed performed the music for and sometimes appeared in movies he produced, and the soundtracks for which were released on his own record label.
Stigwood emigrated to the U.K. in the late '50s and founded a theatrical management agency. A client of his, television actor John Leyton, earned a recording contract. Cast as a pop singer on the television series Harpers, West One, he sang "Johnny Remember Me" on the show, and it shot to number one on the British charts in 1961. Thereafter, Stigwood began to focus on music clients. By 1966, after a period of bankruptcy, he had latched onto his two main clients, Eric Clapton, then with the band Cream, and The Bee Gees, also Australian immigrants. Both became very successful in the late '60s. (Stigwood took production credits on their early records.)
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Stigwood emigrated to the U.K. in the late '50s and founded a theatrical management agency. A client of his, television actor John Leyton, earned a recording contract. Cast as a pop singer on the television series Harpers, West One, he sang "Johnny Remember Me" on the show, and it shot to number one on the British charts in 1961. Thereafter, Stigwood began to focus on music clients. By 1966, after a period of bankruptcy, he had latched onto his two main clients, Eric Clapton, then with the band Cream, and The Bee Gees, also Australian immigrants. Both became very successful in the late '60s. (Stigwood took production credits on their early records.)
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