"Don Arden Don Arden (born Harry Levy; 4 January 1926 – 21 July 2007) was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. He managed the careers of the rock acts such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Air Supply, Small Faces, The Move, Black Sabbath and Electric Light Orchestra. He gained a reputation in Britain for his aggressive, sometimes illegal business tactics; which led to his being called ""Mr Big"", the ""Yiddish Godfather"" and the ""Meyer Lansky of Pop"". He was married to Hope Shaw, a former ballet dancer/teacher, who died in 1999. He was the father of David Levy"
"Gene Simmons Gene Klein (born Chaim Witz (, ; August 25, 1949), known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, author, and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with lead singer and rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in the early 1970s. Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital, in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish emigrants from Hungary. His mother, Florence Klein (originally Flóra Kovács), was born in Jánd, and survived internment"
"Ronnie James Dio Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio, was an American heavy metal singer, songwriter, and musician. He fronted and/or founded numerous groups including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell. He is credited with popularizing the ""metal horns"" hand gesture in metal culture and was known for his medieval-themed lyrics. Dio possessed a powerful, versatile vocal range, and was capable of singing both hard rock and lighter ballads. Ronald James ""Dio"" Padavona was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Italian-American parents from Cortland, New York."
"Steve Lieberman Steve Lieberman (born 21 June 1958), also known as the Gangsta Rabbi and The King of Jewish Punk, (Hebrew name ליב פרץ בין אליאזר ה־בדלן ה־נזדי or Lev Ava'ran bar-Eli'ezar ha-Bad'lan ha-Naz'ari) is a Jewish-American punk rock /metal singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, composer, arranger, producer and former village comptroller residing in Freeport, New York. He is a Hebrew Nazarite, the founder of The Bad'lanim, a minority sect of Judaism and a vegetarian since 1995. Lieberman is often considered an outsider musician, described as ""walking the line between insanity and "". This has been partially attributed to his lifelong"
"Phil Solomon is the first cousin to Maureen Black, wife of British Born Businessman and Television Mogul, Roy Keith Black and cousin to film producer, Keith D. Black. Phil Solomon (music executive) Philip Raymond (""Phil"") Solomon (Belfast, 27 April 1924 – Bournemouth, 10 April 2011) was a music executive and businessman from Northern Ireland. He managed artists like The Bachelors, Them and The Dubliners, founded Major Minor Records and was co-director of Radio Caroline. Phil Solomon was the younger son of a Jewish family in Belfast. Several family members had ties with the music business. His father Maurice and Uncle"
"of pneumonia. Robert Blackwell Robert Alexander ""Bumps"" Blackwell (May 23, 1918 – March 9, 1985) was an American bandleader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers. Born in Seattle, Washington, Blackwell led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist Ray Charles and trumpeter Quincy Jones. He moved to Hollywood, California to continue studying composition, but he"
"Astoria Memorial concert. The proceeds of the concert were donated to ""The Small Faces Charitable Trust"" set up by Kenney Jones in memory of Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. In September 2007 Marriott, along with the other members of the Small Faces and manager Don Arden, were honoured with a plaque unveiled in Carnaby Street, on the site of Don Arden's offices, the spiritual home of the band in the 1960s. Steve Marriott Stephen Peter Marriott (30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) was an English musician, songwriter and frontman of two notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two"
"Yehudah Katz Yehudah Katz (born May 10, 1951) is an American-born Israeli singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and activist. He first rose to fame as the lead singer of seminal Jewish rock band Reva L'Sheva. As a solo artist, he has released three albums and performed with prominent Israeli singers like Ehud Banai and Kobi Oz. He is also the founder of the non-profit organization Artists and Musicians for Israel (AMI). Katz, originally from Los Angeles, began his career as a backing musician for Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, performing on several of his albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He"
"work to listen to records. They recruited friends Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston (born James Edward Winston Langwith, 20 April 1945, in Stratford, east London), who switched from guitar to the organ. They rapidly progressed from rehearsals at The Ruskin Arms public house (which was owned by Winston's parents) in Manor Park, London, to ramshackle pub gigs, to semi-professional club dates. The group chose the name, Small Faces, because of the members' small physical stature and ""A 'Face' was somebody special, more than just a snappy dresser, he was someone in Mod circles as a leader, someone to look up"
"General Specific Small Faces Small Faces were an English rock band from East London. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston, although by 1966 Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboardist. The band is remembered as one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of the 1960s with memorable hit songs such as ""Itchycoo Park"", ""Lazy Sunday"", ""All or Nothing"", and ""Tin Soldier"", as well as their concept album ""Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake"". They later evolved into one of the UK's most successful psychedelic bands until"
"expected to continue into 2018. On January 18, 2017, Dio was inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History. Pillsbury, Glenn (2013). ""Dio's Lost Decade: Recovering the 1960s Career of Ronnie James Dio"". Retrieved from http://www.peteofthestreet.net/dioslostdecade Ronnie James Dio Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio, was an American heavy metal singer, songwriter, and musician. He fronted and/or founded numerous groups including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell. He is credited with popularizing the ""metal horns"" hand gesture in metal culture and was known for his medieval-themed"
"Toby Marriott Toby Marriott was born in Epping, Essex, United Kingdom on February 20, 1976. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the bands ""The Strays"" and ""Black Drummer"". He is the only son of rock legend Steve Marriott who fronted the bands Small Faces, and Humble Pie in the sixties, and seventies. Toby spent his childhood in Sawbridgeworth UK, California, New York City and Atlanta. At age fourteen he was invited to start trials at several football clubs before moving to America. Toby was in a band called ""The Clinic"" from 1996 to 2000,who toured"
"Small Faces Small Faces were an English rock band from East London. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston, although by 1966 Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboardist. The band is remembered as one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of the 1960s with memorable hit songs such as ""Itchycoo Park"", ""Lazy Sunday"", ""All or Nothing"", and ""Tin Soldier"", as well as their concept album ""Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake"". They later evolved into one of the UK's most successful psychedelic bands until 1969. The"
"for a law directory. He began in the music business in the 1950s as a manager of Teddy P's Lounge in Newark, New Jersey, owned by promoter Teddy Powell. Joseph G. ""Joe"" Glaser (December 17, 1896 – June 6, 1969), music manager of Louis Armstrong from 1935 until his death in 1969, and the original proprietor of Sunset Gardens on the South Side of Chicago, mentored Avant. Glaser founded Consolidated Booking Corporation and Associated Booking Corporation on November 26, 1943. Avant later managed R&B singer Little Willie John, jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, Kim Weston, Luiz Bonfa, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Hubbard,"
"Steve Marriott Stephen Peter Marriott (30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) was an English musician, songwriter and frontman of two notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two decades. Marriott is remembered for his powerful singing voice which belied his small stature, and for his aggressive approach as a guitarist in mod rock bands Small Faces (1965–1969 and 1977–1978) and Humble Pie (1969–1975 and 1980–1981). Marriott was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Small Faces. In Britain, Marriott became a popular, often-photographed mod style icon through his role as"
"Peter Grant (music manager) Peter James Grant (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995) was an English music manager and film actor. Grant managed popular English bands the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, among others, and was also a record executive for Swan Song Records. Grant has been described as ""one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history"". He is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for musicians in dealings with concert promoters. Grant was born in the south London suburb of South Norwood, England. His mother Dorothy worked as a secretary. He attended Sir"
"Rod Smallwood Roderick Charles Smallwood (born 17 February 1950) is an English music manager, best known as the co-manager of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. With his business partner, Andy Taylor, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, he founded the Sanctuary Records Group in 1979, which became the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world until its closure in 2007. Prior to managing Iron Maiden, Smallwood managed Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Smallwood was born and raised in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where he grew up"
"in what Shaw described as ""an uncelebrated plot in a Jewish cemetery in North London"". Eve Taylor Eve Taylor (born Evelyn Henshall, 28 February 1915 – 31 August 1983) was a British talent manager, notable as one of the early female music managers. She managed singers Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw and Val Doonican, and composer John Barry, among others, and in the 1960s was described in London as ""the Queen Bee of Show Business"". She was born in London in 1915. Her father, William Henshall, was a well-known show business impresario, and her mother, born Evelyn Taylor, was a music"
"Brad Rubinstein Bradley Adam ""Brad"" Rubinstein (born August 24, 1972; Ilford, Essex, England; Hebrew name: Binyamin Adam) is an English-Israeli Orthodox Jewish guitarist, songwriter, and producer based in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Initially gaining fame with the short-lived London trip hop band Lisp, he moved to Israel after becoming a ""baal teshuvah"" and co-founded the Jewish hip hop group Shtar. In 1995, Rubinstein, then living in East London, co-founded the trip hop band Lisp, together with vocalist Johnnie Gordon, bassist Jason Hall, drummer Adam Rich, and Disco Inferno's Paul Willmott on keyboards. Two years later, the band was signed to London"
"Phil Solomon (music executive) Philip Raymond (""Phil"") Solomon (Belfast, 27 April 1924 – Bournemouth, 10 April 2011) was a music executive and businessman from Northern Ireland. He managed artists like The Bachelors, Them and The Dubliners, founded Major Minor Records and was co-director of Radio Caroline. Phil Solomon was the younger son of a Jewish family in Belfast. Several family members had ties with the music business. His father Maurice and Uncle Harold Peres founded Solomon and Peres in the early 20s. Both Maurice and Harold Peres became two of the biggest shareholders of Decca Records, his brother Mervyn founded"
"Robert Blackwell Robert Alexander ""Bumps"" Blackwell (May 23, 1918 – March 9, 1985) was an American bandleader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers. Born in Seattle, Washington, Blackwell led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist Ray Charles and trumpeter Quincy Jones. He moved to Hollywood, California to continue studying composition, but he instead took"
"Steven Severin Steven Severin (born Steven John Bailey, 25 September 1955, Highgate, London), is an English musician, composer, bassist, producer and co-founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. He took the name ""Severin"" from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character who is mentioned in the Velvet Underground song ""Venus in Furs"". Severin had earlier considered ""Steve Spunker"" for his stage name. After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin created his own label RE, and released several instrumental albums via his official website. In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, he regularly performed live in solo, playing"
"Steve Barnett (music executive) Steve Barnett (born February 19, 1952, Wolverhampton, England) is the Chairman and CEO of Capitol Music Group. Barnett began his music career as an agent in London in 1970, working for the Bron Agency (Gerry Bron) and dealing with bands such as Colosseum and Uriah Heep. He became an agent for NEMS Enterprises, the company originally formed by Beatles manager Brian Epstein. While there from 1972 to 1974, Barnett represented artists such as Elton John, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple. He briefly managed Rough Diamond in 1977, a short-lived British band that featured David Byron (ex"
"to two of Lieberman's lyrics which express hope to find a peaceful end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, ""Unholy War In The Holy Land"" (2004) and ""For The Children of the Gaza"" (2009). Steve Lieberman Steve Lieberman (born 21 June 1958), also known as the Gangsta Rabbi and The King of Jewish Punk, (Hebrew name ליב פרץ בין אליאזר ה־בדלן ה־נזדי or Lev Ava'ran bar-Eli'ezar ha-Bad'lan ha-Naz'ari) is a Jewish-American punk rock /metal singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, composer, arranger, producer and former village comptroller residing in Freeport, New York. He is a Hebrew Nazarite, the founder of The Bad'lanim, a minority"
"Small Faces discography Small Faces were an English British Beat band formed in 1965 by Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston (who was soon replaced by Ian McLagan). Heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues, they later evolved into a psychedelic act before disbanding in 1969. Despite the fact that they were only together four years, Small Faces' music output from the mid to late sixties remains as notable British Beat and psychedelic music of that era. Allmusic refers to them as ""the best English band never to make it big in America"". Small Faces were awarded"
"(Jack White, Dead Weather)at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN. A full-length album is expected in 2014. The Strays song ""Life Support"" was featured on the film ""The Transporter 2"" in 2005. Marriott has appeared on ABC's 20/20, and appeared in Playboy Magazine. His godfather is well-known English celebrity Joe Brown. Toby Marriott Toby Marriott was born in Epping, Essex, United Kingdom on February 20, 1976. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the bands ""The Strays"" and ""Black Drummer"". He is the only son of rock legend Steve Marriott who fronted the bands Small Faces, and"
"Coran Capshaw Robert Coran Capshaw is the manager of Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Lady Antebellum, Trey Anastasio and Chris Stapleton among others. He also is the founder of Red Light Management, co-founder of ATO Records, former CEO of Musictoday LLC, and a real estate mogul in Charlottesville, Virginia. His early management model adopted emerging technologies, which, combined with tried and true music industry management techniques, have placed him at the top of the industry. Capshaw got his start as a music manager in the early 1990s when he was the owner of a bar in Charlottesville, VA called ""Trax"". In"
"(apart from Winston) small (none being over 5 ft 6 in tall), and the term ""face"" in English mod culture was the name given to a well-known and respected mod. Small Faces were signed to Don Arden within six weeks of forming and quickly became a successful mod band highly regarded by the youth cult's followers when their debut single ""Whatcha Gonna Do About It"" hit the UK singles chart. Later, they were said to be one of many influences on the formation and musical style of British hard rock group Led Zeppelin. Marriott is reputed to have been Jimmy"
"Nigel Frieda Nigel Quentin Frieda (born August 1952) is a British music producer, property owner of the Osea Island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex. Nigel Quentin Frieda was born the son of Isidore Frieda, a Jewish hairdresser, salon and property owner, and an Irish Catholic mother. His elder brother is the hairdresser John Frieda. Frieda founded/launched the pop group the Sugababes. He runs London's Matrix Studio and has also produced The Rolling Stones. Frieda is the owner of the Osea Island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex, England, most of which he bought in 2000"
"by saying, ""I think they will go in the reverse direction, and become more honest."" Brian Epstein Brian Samuel Epstein (; 19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles. Epstein first discovered the Beatles in November 1961 during a lunchtime performance at The Cavern Club. He was instantly impressed and saw great potential in the group. Epstein was rejected by nearly all major recording companies in London, until he secured a meeting with George Martin, head of EMI's Parlophone label. In May 1962, Martin agreed to sign the Beatles, partly because of"
"Steve Marriott discography Steve Marriott (1947-1991) was a successful and versatile English blue-eyed soul, singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his uniquely powerful voice and aggressive guitar in groups Small Faces (1965-1969) and Humble Pie (1969-1975). In England, Marriott became a popular often photographed mod style icon through his role as lead singer and guitarist with the Small Faces in the mid to late sixties. Marriott's music was influenced from an early age by his heroes Buddy Holly, Booker T & the MG's, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and later the Rolling Stones. Marriott posthumously"
"Oscar Rabin Oscar Rabin (26 April 1899 – 20 June 1958) was a Latvian-born English bandleader and musician. He was the musical director of his own big band. Rabin was born in Riga to a family of Jewish origin, and came to London, England as a child. A blind music teacher and violinist taught Rabin music in exchange for him acting as a guide. At 15 he became a professional musician, he then worked in theatre orchestras and attended the Guildhall School of Music. His career was interrupted by service in the First World War, then in 1922 he formed"
"Shir Yaakov Sam Benjamin ""Shir Yaakov"" Feinstein-Feit (born February 27, 1978) is an American liturgist, singer-songwriter, composer, and prayer leader. He is a co-founder of the Kol Zimrah minyan and musical director at Romemu, the largest Jewish Renewal community in New York. As a musician, he has recorded three full-length albums and has performed with the groups Darshan and The Epichorus. Feit was raised in Manhattan by a secular Jewish family. He attended the Abraham Joshua Heschel School beginning in third grade when his mother got a job there. His family were members of the B'nai Jeshurun synagogue. As a"