In the 1960s he managed rock super group Cream and its guitarist Eric Clapton before signing brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, collectively known as the Bee Gees, whose melodic folk-rock achieved late-'60s success before a career slump.
(Mr. Young ran Bliss Artist Management, which managed rock bands).
In college, he managed rock bands.
Higgins' manager is Eleven's John Watson, who also manages rock band Silverchair.
He manages a rock group called the Electras, which consists of 3 girls, Glenda Barnes, Angela Howell, & Katherine Brooks.
Mike Martinovich, who manages the rock group My Morning Jacket, said the band had agreed to play the two most established festivals, Coachella and Bonnaroo, and turned down other offers to keep from seeming like too much of a commodity.
A personal assistant accused of killing her boss, Linda S. Stein, a prominent real estate agent who once managed the punk rock group the Ramones, was indicted yesterday on murder charges.
It also caught the eye of Elliott Cahn, who once managed the hot rock group Green Day, and lawyer Joseph Serling, whose firm represents U2 and Ani DiFranco.
His father, Keith, managed the 60s experimental rock group Soft Machine before teaching art at North East London Polytechnic, where his pupils included Ian Dury and Adam Ant, and then running the art and design department of Colchester Institute.
Kim Fowley, the mercurial and eccentric music producer and Svengali who created and managed the all-female rock group the Runaways in the 1970s, died Thursday after a long battle with bladder cancer.
