{"id":7071,"date":"2016-01-04T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2016-01-09T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T19:23:58","slug":"robert-stigwood-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/04\/robert-stigwood-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stigwood Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/05\/arts\/music\/robert-stigwood-entrepreneur-of-rock-and-film-is-dead-at-81.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">Robert Stigwood, Impresario of Rock, Film and Stage, Is Dead at 81<\/h1>\n<p>By <a title=\"More Articles by BEN SISARIO\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/s\/ben_sisario\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"BEN SISARIO\" data-twitter-handle=\"sisario\">BEN SISARIO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0lm58cet1g\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert Stigwood, the Australian-born producer, personal manager and music executive whose blockbuster hits with the Bee Gees and work on the films \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d and \u201cGrease\u201d made him one of the most successful impresarios of the 1970s, died on Monday. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Gibb, a son of Robin Gibb, one of the three brothers who made up the Bee Gees, confirmed the death in a Facebook post, calling Mr. Stigwood his godfather and \u201cthe longtime manager of my family,\u201d but not saying where he died.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the 1970s, Mr. Stigwood had a golden touch in music, theater and film, recognizing early on the cross-promotional power of pop music and theatrical spectacle. He managed the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton, had producing credits on \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d (1977) and \u201cGrease\u201d (1978), and released multiplatinum soundtracks to those films on his label, RSO.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 19 singles that reached No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s pop chart in 1978, eight were released by RSO \u2014including several from the \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d album, among them the Bee Gees\u2019 \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d and \u201cNight Fever\u201d and Yvonne Elliman\u2019s \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RSO\u2019s symbol, a red cartoon cow, became a ubiquitous pop-culture brand of the time, and Newsweek called Mr. Stigwood \u201cthe Ziegfeld of the disco age.\u201d Sandy-haired and ruddy-cheeked, he lived his success as one of the music industry\u2019s classic high-flying entrepreneurs, conducting business by yacht or from his homes in Bermuda, Beverly Hills and elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n<p>He was a producer of the 1975 film \u201cTommy,\u201d based on the Who\u2019s concept album of the same title, and in 1971 produced \u201cJesus Christ Superstar\u201d on Broadway, establishing its longhaired creators, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, as emergent auteurs of the rock-opera era.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/05\/arts\/music\/robert-stigwood-entrepreneur-of-rock-and-film-is-dead-at-81.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Robert Stigwood, Impresario of Rock, Film and Stage, Is Dead at 81 By BEN SISARIO Robert Stigwood, the Australian-born producer, personal manager and music executive whose blockbuster hits with the Bee Gees and work on the films \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d and \u201cGrease\u201d made him one of the most successful impresarios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}