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Happy Birthday, ex manager and partner of Elton John, John Reid, who was born September 9th, 1949 in Paisley.
The son of a welder and a shop worker, he reportedly attended Stow College in Glasgow for a short time before striking out for London in 1967. At age 18 Reid entered the music business as a promoter for EMI. Remarkably by age 19 he was managing the Tamla Motown label for the U.K., and it was at a company Christmas party that 21-year-old Reid met 23-year-old John.
Their professional partnership would last 28 years with Reid being present for John’s career hitting stratospheric heights, often as his personal life hit deep lows due to the performer’s alcohol and drug use, marriage and divorce to Renate Blauel the forging and continuation of his partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin lawsuits, and loves lost and found.
In an interview with The Daily Record Reid later said “When I met Elton, I didn’t even realize his potential, I’ve never claimed to have discovered him. In fact, when he suggested I should manage him, I wasn’t enthusiastic.” When Reid accepted the job of becoming John’s manager at Dick James Music, the couple were already living together.
In anther interview he says Elton was his first love and vice versa John also revealed he was “a virgin until then. I was desperate to be loved, desperate to have a tactile relationship.”
Their relationship as lovers lasted from 1970 until 1975. It was one of the most prolific music periods for John as he delivered numerous international hits including “Your Song,” “Daniel,” “Candle in the Wind,” and “Rocket Man.” His persona on- and off-stage grew and his outfits became more flamboyant. “The vast leaps in style were exhausting,” Reid has said of the period. “He would go out one day with brown hair and return the next with pink.”
According to Reid, the relationship ended because Elton had “never had a sexual adolescence. He needed to go off and play the field, which he did with gusto… There were no dramas.”
Reid would remain in John’s life – and as his business manager – until 1998. Over the decades the two became wealthy due to John’s recording and touring successes. Both men spent big on sports cars, yachts, jewellery, and property, with Reid reportedly owning multiple homes at one point. Reid managed Queen from 1975 to 1978, as well as other acts including Bros, Kiki Dee, Lionel Richie, Billy Connelly, and Michael Flatley.
Like John, Reid would struggle with drugs and alcohol and in 1991 checked into the same recovery clinic John had stayed at when he got sober in 1990. “Elton called me regularly. He was a tower of strength,” Reid told the Daily Record. But unlike John, Reid would relapse and continue to struggle with alcohol.
Professionally, their relationship ended in 1998, the same year John’s auditors discovered a reported £20 million gap in his accounts. Two years later they would be facing each other in court, this time on opposing sides with John suing accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Andrew Haydon, director of John Reid Enterprises, claiming negligence and breach of duty. “I trusted him,” John said of Reid in court. “I never thought he would betray me but he has betrayed me.” The singer had already been paid over 3 million pound by Reid in an out of court settlement by the time it reached court.
Reid continued in the music business until reportedly retiring in 1999, a year after divesting himself of an art collection allegedly worth £2 million. He was a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor in 2005 and has since lived a quiet life out of the public eye.
“I’m fond of Elton and proud of the work we did together,” Reid is reported to have said in the mid-2010s. “One day I’ll bump into him and there may be hugs and kisses. Or maybe not.”
There is no shortage of controversy in his life either and Reid has been known to have a violent side, one particularly powerful scene in Rocketman features an enraged Reid hitting John after the singer showed up late to a performance. While no evidence corroborates that this moment actually took place, Reid’s temper was a real-life problem. In a 1974 Rolling Stone magazine article, a former employee describes the manager as “diminutive, but he’s a killer. He’ll punch anyone.” The characterization seems reinforced by a long list of notable incidents.Reid once threw a glass of champagne at a man for not having enough liquor at a reception for John, he slapped a female journalist who reportedly called him a “poof," he was charged with assault in New Zealand after beating and kicking a journalist, he was arrested in San Francisco after hitting a hotel doorman with his cane while waiting for a car and he allegedly beat another journalist the day after John’s 1984 wedding to Renate Blauel in Sydney, where Reid was the best man. “They’re isolated incidents,” the manager once said of his outbursts. “I don’t make excuses, I’m not particularly proud of it, but any time anything like this has happened, it’s been in defence of Elton or Bernie’s not for personal reasons.”
To me an isolated incident is that, when there are several incidents it means he has a violent nature, Queen drummer Roger Taylor said of Reid in the 2011 Queen documentary Days of Our Lives. “He was very fiery and very feisty, but so were we.” However Veteran British singer-songwriter Mike Batt defended Reid in an interview after the release of Rocketman saying the depiction was especially callous, and that the "portrayal as an uncaring sex-god manipulator is weapons-grade character assassination.”
His current whereabouts are unknown, though reports list him as living in Australia or London.
Reid was portrayed by Irish actor Aidan Gillen in the Film Bohemian Rhapsody and in Rocketman by Scottish actor Richard Madden.
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Is Scooter Braun's Star-studded Empire Crumbling?
The A-List Exodus: Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Demi Lovato Allegedly Say Goodbye to Their Mega-Manager! So, guess what’s buzzing in the music world? Scooter Braun, yeah, the big-shot music manager, seems to be losing his star-studded client list. Word is, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, and Ariana Grande have all stepped back from Braun’s SB Projects*. (That’s the management company he started…
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#ariana grande#demi lovato#independent musician#indie musician#justin beiber#music distribution#music gossip#music industry#music manager#music marketing#music scandal#record contract#scooter braun#self promo
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Also set a reminder for the upcoming Twitter space: Does hip-hop in Africa need saving?
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxP
#twitter spaces#hiphop#rap#industry#deejay#music manager#blogger#writer#africanrap#afrohiphop#afrobeats
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That wasn't very open arms of her.
#the wisdom saga#epic the musical#calypso#CALYPSO WHEN I FIND YOU-#arter speaks#literally how did she manage to trigger three of odys traumas at once what is wRONG WITH YOU
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Antinous sketches
I will redesign him a bit for Wisdom saga because his old design looked too much like Kaeya from genshin impact. Still keeping the eyepatch though, that's my favorite part of his design.
For his design I was mostly aiming for this intimidating, vain, kind of brute hunter aesthetic. I'm not really used to drawing manly men so he'll be quite the challenge to animate.
#I HATE DRAWING MUSCLES SO MUCH#my comfort zone in art is literally the complete opposite of manly big strong guys#but if I made him a twink just for my own sake I would never forgive myself#whatever if I managed to animate that design of Scylla I can do anything#epic the musical#digital art#art#epic: the musical#greek myths#epic the musical fanart
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preparations
based off this post by @letsplaythermalnuclearwar :)
#how to manage your captain: leash him like a damn dog#hope you dont mind the tag#if you end up seeing this. is your pfp a donnie themed vape#my twin is very interested in the rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#my artwork#art#sketch#i dont really like the art on here though#epic the musical#the odyssey#odysseus#eurylochus#epic the thunder saga#tagamemnon#greek mythology
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*Odysseus’ crew appear in The Underworld post-Thunder Bringer*
Hades: Weren’t you just here?
#hades: you managed to piss off BOTH of my brothers?!#epic the musical#epic the thunder saga#epic the underworld saga#jorge rivera herrans#pretty sure hades would just nope out at that point#like no not aga8n#odysseus#the odyssey#homer#greek mythology#hades#you know you can’t just go to the underworld whenever you feel like it#there are rules#Charon pulls out a stack of documents#Thunder Bringer
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If you match this job description, come join me on the platform we all keep forgetting about
#my music#apple music#indie music#music#musician#electronic music#music blog#cover art#musicindustry#new music#memes#manager#music manager#pop music#music video#i love music#Spotify
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MDZS x Brazil (1985)
(Yes. Real movie dialogue)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#MDZS AU#lan wangji#wei wuxian#Backstory to this is 'we recently watched Brazil (1985) and this scene make us lose our minds.'#Brazil (1985) is best described as 'The Monty Python Crew does an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 (1949).' Because it is.#And let me just say. I think it is the perfect adaptation. Somehow this film manages to be one of the best dystopia satires out there#While also being a genuine critique of capitalism and burocracy.#Plus the practical effects and set design were outstanding.#The 'romance' in this movie was definitely also a satire.#It is unbelievably wacky. I'm dead serious when I say this comic is beat for beat something that happens in the film#Guy who told this women *nothing* about the peril she's in form the government tells her he (legally) killed her.#She responds by saying “Care for a little necrophilia?” with NO ROMANTIC LEAD UP.#THE MUSIC SWELLS. HE TEARS OFF HIS JACKET AND DIVES INTO THE BED. SCENE END.#Jill Leyton has incredible range as a hot butch and hot femme. Was the line bizarre? Yes. She can pull it off though.#We paused and watched it back a few times. I wasn't intending to make a crossover this obscure but honestly...#It's...it's too good of a fit to pass up. Wei Wuxian *would* say that...
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Castafiore delivers an earth-shattering performance! Update to my story, the House of Glass! Follows directly from this. Drawing this part was intense - crowd shots, buildings, cars, guns - all things I'm not fond of drawing, but hopefully this was worth it!
If you're enjoying this comic, please consider donating to Youssef Helles. He moved to Belgium in 2019 and is trying to get his wife and five children to Egypt after his family was forced to flee on foot to Southern Gaza, then again to Rafah, where they are currently living in a tent.
His tumblr is @4-zien-yousef
#tintin#adventures of tintin#comic#fanart#captain haddock#archibald haddock#snowy#milou#chang#ramo nash#professor calculus#cuthbert calculus#castafiore#bianca castafiore#fang hsi ying#the house of glass#gun cw#police brutality cw#i genuinely dont know how i managed to draw this guys#also the lyrics arent matched well to the sheet music im afraid#i had to do it for aesthetic reasons
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youtube
#music business#music manager#music management#music marketing#music career#music job#music jobs#Youtube
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Hey, theatre kids? Hi, me again with another public service announcement about performer etiquette.
I don't care if you're the teachers/directors' favourite. I don't care if you're playing a lead. I don't care who you are really, treat your stage management team and fellow actors with fucking respect.
You don't like somebody in your cast? That's fine, but don't go spreading false rumours about them to everybody.
You don't care for the members of stage management? Well first of all, fuck you too, and secondly, don't talk shit about them when they're in the same room as you. Don't talk shit about us full stop actually, you're show would fall apart without us.
A new cast member asking a lot of questions, and it's kinda bothering you? Don't tell them to shut up to their fucking face, answer them and help them out.
I can't believe I even have to ask this? I feel like this should be common sense? But I'm watching things happen in our musical cast right now, and I feel like I need to give a friendly reminder.
Take care,
- your local fed up stage crew member.
#musicals#musical#theatre#musical theatre#stage crew#stage management#performer etiquette#theater etiquette
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telemachus sketch design? he has his mothers eyes
#having a style panic because i managed to forget how to render#took a week break then BAM art recession#epic the musical#epic wisdom saga#telemachus#greek mythology#digital art#digital sketch#pjo#artists on tumblr
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Phantom of the Opera but Christine is a K-pop star contractually forbidden from having a boyfriend. Is this anything?
#it’s apparently the time of year in which I have deranged cross over thoughts#it’s probably been done#because I am neither a K-pop person nor an ALW musicals person although I’m aware of the existence of both#I mean really in hindsight#you could point to so many ingenue/manager pairings and go ‘that shit right there officer’ as INSPIRATION for that musical
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Everyone shut up about the Jabberwock gjinka WE FINALLY GOT MUKURO SPRITES
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da railway cat once again
commissions open :)
#i managed to draw something yippeeeeeee#also decided to start putting a watermark on my stuff because. idk#i wanna start posting on pinterest but i am well aware of the amount of theft on that app#my art#skimbleshanks#cats the musical#cats musical
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