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9 ore fa · To follow the gay, Australian entrepreneur Robert Stigwood’s story from his involvement, as pop manager, in John Leyton’s dramatic 1960 single “Johnny Remember Me”, to his producer role in the late-1970s cinematic juggernauts, Grease and Saturday Night Fever, for example, is to have a passenger seat on one of many fascinating individual ...
12 giu 2024 · Robin Gibb was one third of one of the greatest and most successful pop bands ever, the Bee Gees, alongside his brothers Barry and Maurice Gibb, singing such hits as 'How Deep Is Your Love', 'Tragedy' and 'Night Fever'.
1 lug 2024 · But after their return to their native UK in January 1967 and their new representation by the tenacious entrepreneur Robert Stigwood, this memorable year in pop history would assume huge...
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25 giu 2024 · It takes readers from the birth of rock and roll through the 1960s and the importance of gay managers in the story of pop - Larry Parnes, Robert Stigwood and, of course, Brian Epstein - and on ...
12 giu 2024 · Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario, Robert Stigwood died aged 81. He was best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar and film productions including the hugely successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
28 giu 2024 · “Music for UNICEF” was the brainchild of the Bee Gees, their manager Robert Stigwood, and British television personality David Frost. ABBA (Chiquitita) and the Bee Gees (Too Much Heaven) lip-synched. The event was broadcast the day after the concert and an LP was released.
1 giorno fa · The Who were signed to Robert Stigwood's label, Reaction, and released "Substitute". Townshend said he wrote the song about identity crisis, and as a parody of the Rolling Stones's "19th Nervous Breakdown". It was the first single to feature him playing an acoustic twelve-string guitar.
