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Delilah
06-22-2019, 10:01 AM
With his former colleague David Geffen, Roberts was one of the pivotal figures in the rise of the Southern California and Laurel Canyon music scenes of the Sixties and Seventies. Known equally for his business savvy and sense of humor, Roberts landed record deals for [Neil] Young and [Joni] Mitchell, co-managed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, conceived the idea of Petty and the Heartbreakers backing Bob Dylan in the 1980s and helped launch the careers of Tracy Chapman and the Cars.
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Alongside Geffen, he formed the powerful Geffen-Roberts Company. The management firm soon came to represent not just Mitchell (until 1985) but Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, America and many others. When Geffen started Asylum Records, its acts, including the Eagles and Jackson Browne, were also managed by Geffen-Roberts.


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-roberts-neil-young-manager-dead-851390/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elliot-roberts-neil-young-manager-dead-851390/)
sodascouts
06-22-2019, 12:37 PM
I heard about this last night! He was definitely a big figure for the Eagles early on. I wrote up a bit a bout Lookout Management here:

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm
(https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm)

RIP.
New Kid In Town
06-23-2019, 10:09 AM
I heard about this last night! He was definitely a big figure for the Eagles early on. I wrote up a bit a bout Lookout Management here:

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm
(https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm)

RIP.

Wow, so sorry to hear this. He was big influence in the Laurel Canyon music scene and helped the Eagles get their career started. RIP Elliot.
Ive always been a dreamer
06-23-2019, 12:49 PM
I'm sorry to hear about Elliot's passing. He was an integral part of the band's early years, and, partly responsible for hooking them up with Irving. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

R.I.P. Elliot Roberts
Delilah
06-24-2019, 11:07 AM
I heard about this last night! He was definitely a big figure for the Eagles early on. I wrote up a bit a bout Lookout Management here:

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm
(https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/management/lookout.htm)

RIP.

Nice write-up. I didn’t know about the higher publishing percentages he got for Don and Glenn.

RIP Mr. Roberts