kingzoso Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Anyone on this Great Led Zeppelin Forum ever heard of the person named Robert Stigwood and his contribution to American and British Pop Music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 He is an Australian manager, producer, filmmaker etc, who was "responsible" for the Tommy movie and Bee Gees and had something to do with Eric Clapton and Blind Faith among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantpothead Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I vaguely remember that he had something to do with The Bee Gees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Anyone on this Great Led Zeppelin Forum ever heard of the person named Robert Stigwood and his contribution to American and British Pop Music? Wow, where have you been Robert Stigwood has been a huge name in the music game since the 1960s. You must be really young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropDown Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Look up the RSO record label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Anyone with a halfway decent record collection will likely have a plethora of records with the RSO red cow label, particularly if you were into collecting OSTs. "Star Wars", "Saturday Night Fever", "Grease", "Fame"...all of these were originally released on RSO records. As were the mid-to-late 70s records by Eric Clapton, the Bee Gees and Andy Gibb and the like. Then, Robert Stigwood and RSO crashed and burn with the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie debacle...one of the supreme unmitigated disasters in pop culture history. Nearly everyone associated with this turkey suffered career ruin. Before he started the RSO label, Robert Stigwood was involved with a lot of artists you probably like if you're a Led Zeppelin fan: Cream, Blind Faith, Eric Clapton...and the Bee Gees, who were a fairly good pop group before being transformed by the disco craze in the 70s. Robert Stigwood, along with the considerable help of Joe Meek, are credited by many for changing the calcified ways of the British music industry in the early-60s. So, he was indeed an important figure in the history of rock and roll. Still...that damn Sgt. Pepper's movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swandown Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 He was John Paul Jones' employer for several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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