Alan Callan is a businessman, musician, and filmmaker.

Early career

Callan first met Jimmy Page in 1968, the year that Led Zeppelin was formed. Callan was pursuing a career in the arts producing short films, writing, and photography. All of these pursuits were combined with a lifelong passion for music. He and Page became friends at a screening of the film San Francisco which Callan produced with documentary director Anthony Stern. The film went on to win several film festival awards in Europe. James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9th January 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Led Zeppelin were an English rock band who formed in 1968. ... Anthony Stern was born in Cambridge, England in 1944 and first started making films while at Cambridge University, working as assistant to the avant-garde documentary film maker Peter Whitehead. ...

Some time later, Page asked Peter Grant to contact Callan and offer him Led Zeppelin's music for any future projects. Around this time, Callan had given up playing drums and begun playing guitar where he quickly extended his involvement in music by playing with a succession of small bands. Eventually, through the support of Chris Blackwell (owner of Island Records), Callan got time at Basing Street Studios and learned the rudiments of record production. Alan never made a film using Zeppelin material, but his growing involvement in the U.K music scene as a player/producer and his contact with Grant and Page made him a natural choice to run Swan Song Records. Peter Grant in 1973 Peter Grant, (April 5, 1935 – November 21, 1995) was a manager for The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, and a record executive for Swan Song Records. ... Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... Swan Song Records was a record label launched by Led Zeppelin on May 10, 1974. ...

While running Swan Song, he oversaw several releases on the label and was behind the efforts to sign John Lennon and Vangelis. Independently of his work at Swan Song, Callan produced a wide range of music by artists that included Alexis Korner, Paul Carrack, Back Street Crawler, Murray Head and Bob Weston. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου) [IPA: ] is a world-renowned Greek composer of electronic, New Age and classical music and musical performer, under the artist name Vangelis Papathanassiou (Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) or just Vangelis (a diminutive of Evangelos) [IPA: or ]. He is best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots of... Alexis Korner (born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, April 19, 1928 in Paris - died January 1, 1984 in Westminster, South London), was an English blues musician, born to an Austrian father and Greek mother. ... Paul Carrack, 2003 Paul Carrack (born April 22, 1951 in Sheffield, England) is a British keyboardist, singer and songwriter. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Murray Head on the cover of his album Passion. ... Bob Weston is an American musician, producer and recording engineer - though is not to be confused with the Englishman by the same name - Bob Weston, was the Guitar Player who followed on from Peter Green in Fleetwood Mac and who went on to play with Steve Marriott and Humble Pie...

Recent years

Since Swan Song, Alan went on to develop the international media company CPMA Group. He used his entertainment skills to build a portfolio of media-based sports rights that today have become some of the worlds most watched properties. Callan has directed and/or promoted The European PGA Championship, The Scottish Open Golf Championship (which he founded), the Rugby World Cup, the 1993 World Chess Championship, and several other leading sports properties. Professional Golfers Association, (with or without the apostrophe), is the usual term for a professional association in mens golf. ... The Players Championship is a professional snooker tournament. ... For the world cup that is contested in rugby league, see Rugby League World Cup. ... Current World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. ...

In 1998 Callan founded WorldSport Networks and under a joint agreement with GAISF - the General Association of International Sports Federations began aggregating the online rights of the Associations members. In 2000 the company was primed for success when Callan was forced to stop work due to being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. In April he advised the management of the company of his condition and asked them to take over all day to day activities whilst he went to consider his treatment options. A month later, the seriousness of his condition caused him to resigned both as Chairman and CEO. By this time he was aware that Multiple Myeloma is incurable and potentially terminal. At the time of his admission to the Mayo clinic he had two collapsed vertebrae, twelve breaks in his rib cage and was unable to walk without support. His GP in London told him that if he wanted to seek aggressive treatment to a Cancer that has no known cure he should consider going to the United States. Arriving at the Mayo clinic he was told by the Doctors that they would offer him a series of experimental and other treatments - one of which "Samarium", had only been given to eight people in the world. The condition for treatment was that he could not go home till the treatment was completed. Despite Callan investing all of his remaining resources in WorldSport during his treatment, the lead investor Willem Van der Vorm decided the company should be closed and set about obtaining an order to dissolve the company entirely against Callan's wishes and the advice of the Company's professionals. Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahlers disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. ...

This action by Van der Vorm/Marint led to June staff salaries at the company being delayed, and the first redundancies were announced in July, these employees were never fully remunerated for their two months of loyalty and like the staff, Callan was never compensated for trying to save the company whilst he was in hospital. The company closed in September whilst Callan was undergoing Chemotherapy. In October 2000 Callan had a stem cell transplant and was released from direct care in late November 2000. He was unable to walk properly for a further eighteen months and for two years following the treatment underwent tests every month.

Following ten months of extensive experimental and development treatment at the Mayo Clinic, six years on Callan remains in remission from a disease which has an expected survival of less than two years. Main campus in downtown Rochester, Minnesota. ... Remission is the state of absence of disease activity in patients with known chronic illness. ...

Nearly forty years on, he is still good friends with Jimmy Page and since returning to work has helped Jimmy reorganise his business affairs, acted as an adviser to the PGA European Tour and a number of other businesses and is involved in developing advanced systems for distributing digital content via satellites.

External links

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