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Il avait travaillé avec les groupes de pop les plus légendaires de la planète et produit certains films cultes, mais était resté largement inconnu du grand public.
Le producteur de musique australien Robert Stigwood, dont l’un des faits d’armes est d’avoir été le manager des BeeGees au sommet de leur carrière dans les années 1970, est mort à l’âge de 81 ans, ont annoncé mardi 5 janvier plusieurs de ses proches.
Outre son implication avec les BeeGees, qui lui doivent une bonne partie de leur succès, il est aussi connu avoir travaillé avec Cream, les Beatles, pour s’être occupé de la carrière soliste d’Eric Clapton et pour avoir travaillé avec Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart ou David Bowie.
Il a aussi travaillé dans le cinéma, là aussi avec succès. Il est notamment le producteur de Grease et de Saturday Night Fever. On lui doit donc le succès de John Travolta et il sera fier d'avoir embauché Olivia Newton-John pour le rôle de Sandy.
Il est aussi derrière le film à succès Tommy (1975), avec au casting Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton ou encore The Who, et produit Evita, qui reçoit un Golden Globe en 1996.
Il s’est également penché sur quelques comédies musicales, et non des moindres, notamment Hair et Jesus Chris Superstar.
Robert Stigwood est celui qui interviewait une très sexy ONJ lors du GREASE DAY en juin 1978 !
Robert Stigwood, who acted as manager of Cream and the Bee Gees before producing some of the all time great rock musicals including Saturday Night Fever and Grease, has died. He was 81.
The Australian born Stigwood's first major career success came representing John Leyton in 1961, helping to secure the English singer and actor a role on the U.K. TV series Harpers West One. That deal included an arrangement for Leyton's character to preform a song on the show, which became the top-charting hit "Johnny Remember Me," produced by experimental pop producer Joe Meek.
The track launched a string of British hit recordings for the team of Leyton, Stigwood and Meek, as well as helping kick off a new era of independent British music production. It also helped for the sort of joint management and recording deals Stigwood carried on through his career.
In 1966, Stigwood became the Who's booking agent by reportedly paying the band's managers £500. This deal also empowered him to lure the band away from Brunswick Records to record the now famous single "Substitute" on his own Reaction Records label.
This same year, Stigwood began managing a new band called Cream made up of the best musicians from two groups he had under contract -- guitarist Eric Clapton from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker from the Graham Bond Organisation. Stigwood's connection to the Who helped him showcase Cream overseas in New York and ultimately break the band in America with striking psychedelic imagery painted on its instruments, commissioned by Dutch art collective The Fool.
In 1967, Stigwood began managing the Australian teenage vocal group the Bee Gees. Though the U.K. release of the band's first Australian charting topping hit "Spicks and Specks" was a flop, an intensive promotional campaign helped make "New York Mining Disaster 1941" the Bee Gee's first international hit, with many more following.
By the late '60s Stigwood's vision had further expanded across realms of the entertainment industry and he began overseeing theater productions, starting with the West End staging of Hair. Further theatrical hits followed, many coming from or going to Broadway, including Oh! Calcutta!, The Dirtiest Show in Town, Pippin and Sweeney Todd.
Stigwood made the leap into film and TV production by the early '70s. His first hit was an adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973, followed by the film version of the Who's Tommy in 1975. Massive success came next with Saturday Night Fever in 1977, which included a two-LP soundtrack written and featuring his client the Bee Gees, and then the beloved rock and roll musical Grease in 1978.
Though several commercial failures followed, he did find success later with the Madonna-starring musical Evita, which won the 1997 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture.
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Nos amis australiens viennent d'établir le classement des meilleures ventes d'albums mais pas que pour l'année 2015 ! Et dans la catégorie "Albums", Olivia Newton-John et John Farnham avec leur TWO STRONG HEARTS Live sont classé en 31ème position des meilleures ventes pour l'année 2015 !
A la tête de ce classement, sans surprise c'est ADELE et son album 25 qui truste la 1ère place !
ARIA Top 100 Albums 2015 6/01/15 - 04/01/16
1 25 Adele
2 X Ed Sheeran
3 1989 Taylor Swift
4 PURPOSE Justin Bieber
5 TITLE Meghan Trainor
6 IN THE LONELY HOUR Sam Smith
7 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble
8 SPIRIT OF THE ANZACS Lee Kernaghan
9 MADE IN THE A.M. One Direction
10 HOW BIG, HOW BLUE, HOW BEAUTIFUL Florence + The Machine
11 IF I CAN DREAM Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
12 HOZIER Hozier
13 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Soundtrack
14 1000 FORMS OF FEAR Sia
15 BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS The Weeknd
16 DREAM YOUR LIFE AWAY Vance Joy
17 CHAOS AND THE CALM James Bay
18 WILDER MIND Mumford & Sons
19 FROZEN: THE SONGS Soundtrack
20 THE VERY BEST OF RICHIE The 12th Man
21 COMPTON Dr. Dre
22 A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS Coldplay
23 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY Kendrick Lamar
24 TRIPLE J'S LIKE A VERSION 11 Various
25 WALKING UNDER STARS Hilltop Hoods
26 FURIOUS 7: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK Soundtrack
27 PITCH PERFECT 2 Soundtrack
28 CURRENTS Tame Impala
29 THE VERY BEST INXS
30 + Ed Sheeran
31 TWO STRONG HEARTS John Farnham & Olivia Newton John
32 21 Adele
33 UPTOWN SPECIAL Mark Ronson
34 BUILT ON GLASS Chet Faker
35 STAGES Josh Groban
36 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack
37 THAT'S THE SPIRIT Bring Me The Horizon
38 KYLIE CHRISTMAS Kylie Minogue
39 SOMETIMES I SIT AND THINK, AND SOMETIMES I JUST SIT Courtney Barnett
40 ROCK OR BUST AC/DC
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