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Albert Bernard Grossman (May 21, 1926 -- January 25, 1986) is best known as the manager of Bob Dylan. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A talent manager, also known as a personal manager, is one who guides the career of artists in the entertainment business. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...

Albert B. Grossman was born in Chicago on May 21, 1926, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who worked as tailors. He attended Lane Technical High School and graduated from Roosevelt University, Chicago, with a degree in economics, though he is also said to have studied child psychology under Bruno Bettelheim (later the author of the pioneering work The Uses of Enchantment, a 1970s study of the inherent psychological wisdom of the fairytale). Perhaps this helped Grossman to psych people out, which he was extremely good at, in his later business dealings in the music industry. Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Lane Technical College Prep High School, familiarly known as Lane Tech, is a preparatory school located in Chicago Illinois. ... Roosevelt University downtown campus (Auditorium Building) Roosevelt University   Roosevelt University is a four-year, private institute of higher education with full service campuses in Chicagos Loop and northwest suburban Schaumburg. ... Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 - March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born American writer and child psychologist. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...

After university he worked for the Chicago Housing Authority, leaving in the late 1950s in unclear circumstances—it is often suggested that he was fired for misconduct—to go into the club business. Seeing folk star Bob Gibson perform at the Off Beat Room in 1956 prompted Grossman’s idea of a ‘listening room’ to showcase Gibson and other talent, as the folk revival movement grew. The result was the Gate of Horn in the basement of the Rice Hotel, where Jim (later Roger) McGuinn got his early inspiration and kicked off his career as a 12-string guitarist. Grossman moved into managing some of the acts who appeared at his club, and in 1959, with Boston-based club owner George Wein, who had founded the Newport Jazz Festival, Albert started up the Newport Folk Festival. ‘The American public,’ he told Robert Shelton, ‘is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of Folk Music.’ The Chicago Housing Authority is an organization focusing on public housing in the city of Chicago. ... Bob Gibson about 1960 Samuel Robert (Bob) Gibson (November 16, 1931 - September 28, 1996) was a folk singer who led a folk music revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. ... James Roger McGuinn (born July 13, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter, who was born as James Joseph McGuinn III in Chicago, Illinois. ... George Wein. ... The Newport Folk Festival is an annual folk-oriented music festival founded in 1959 by George Wein, founder of the already-well-established Newport Jazz Festival, and his partner, Albert Grossman. ... Journalist Robert Shelton was born June 28, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, and died December 11, 1995, in Brighton, England. ... “Folk song” redirects here. ...

He was a pudgy man with derisive eyes, with a regular table at Gerde’s Folk City from which he surveyed the scene in silence, and many people loathed him. In a milieu of New Left reformers and folkie idealists campaigning for a better world, Albert Grossman was a breadhead, seen to move serenely and with deadly purpose like a barracuda circling shoals of fish. Other people—among them Jones and Howard Alk—liked him, finding him loyal, flexible and tolerant, polite and considerate on a personal level and possessed of a dry sense of humour. Either way, he protected those whose careers he managed, building them up, gaining them far more of their dues and defending their interests more fiercely than the nicer, more amateurish managers in the Village. His clients included Bob Gibson and Hamilton Camp, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Lee Hooker, Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, Richie Havens, Todd Rundgren, The Band, the Electric Flag, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. Sometimes he advertised that he was managing an act before they knew it themselves (as for instance in the 1965 Newport Folk Festival programme, when Mimi and Richard Fariña—and their manager—were surprised to find their names on Grossman’s list of clients). The New Left is a term used in different countries to describe left-wing movements that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... Odetta (b. ... The trio Peter, Paul and Mary (often PP&M) is an American musical group that was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. ... John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. ... Ian and Sylvia Tyson were a Canadian folk music duo who performed and recorded from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. ... Lightfoot on the cover of 1975s Gords Gold Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. ... Richie Havens (born January 21, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American folk singer and guitarist. ... Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA), is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. ... For other uses, see Band. ... The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield keyboardist Barry Goldberg and bassist Harvey Brooks. ... Janis Chin Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4 1970 ) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and songwriter with a lovely voice. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Richard George Fariña ( March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966 ) was an American writer and folksinger. ...

He moved in on Bob Dylan’s career very early — secretly his manager by the time he encouraged Izzy Young to lay out the money to hire Carnegie Chapter Hall for Dylan’s launch there in November 1961, though not officially in place as manager until August 20, 1962— and some speculate that Dylan might not have broken through so quickly if Grossman had not been wheeling and dealing for him. Nor can it be denied that he accommodated this most intelligent, difficult hustler of a client superbly—giving him space, not only figuratively but literally too, out at his house near Woodstock (where Daniel Kramer photographed him so memorably in early 1965), and never telling him, as others were quick to do, that he should stay where he was artistically, or stay sober, or play safe. Israel Goodman Young or Izzy Young (born 26 March 1928) is a noted figure in the world of folk music, both in America and Sweden. ... Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. ...

Grossman is to be seen in all his stealthy pomp, like the Cheshire cat without its grin, oozing in and out of the scenes of Dont Look Back as he guides Dylan through his 1965 British tour and out the other side into superstardom. In 1969 he built the Bearsville Recording Studio near Woodstock, and in 1970 founded Bearsville Records. He had a finger in every possible pie, taking his percentage from venues and festivals his clients played, from their fees and royalties, from their music publishing, from the studios they recorded in, from the record labels that released their work, and sometimes from the houses they rented out of town. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Dont Look Back (sic) is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylans 1965 concert tour of England. ... Bearsville Studios was a recording studio at Woodstock, New York. ... Bearsville Records was started in 1970 by Bob Dylans manager, Albert Grossman. ...

By this time he was coming to the end of his association with Dylan. But he guarded Dylan’s premium value to the end. At the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1969, by this time with his long hair in a ponytail (a rare sight on a man in his 40s), he was prowling around the hospitality tents ahead of Dylan’s appearance. Asked if he’d heard the rumours that various members of The Beatles were going to join him on stage, he replied, sotto voce: ‘Of course the Beatles would like to join Dylan on stage; I should like to fly to the moon.’ Bob Dylan has never been given that level of guardianship since. The contracts between them were officially dissolved on July 17, 1970. The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ...

There are two interesting comments on Grossman in the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home. One is Dylan’s: ‘He was kind of like a Colonel Tom Parker figure... you could smell him coming.’ The other is John Cohen’s: ‘I don’t think Albert manipulated Bob, because Bob was weirder than Albert.’ Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America award winner and critically acclaimed American film director. ... DVD cover No Direction Home is a documentary by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and how he managed to make such a big impact in the 20th century. ... Colonel Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk on June 26, 1909 in Breda, Netherlands – died on January 21, 1997 in Las Vegas, Nevada), was an American/Dutch entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. ...

Albert Grossman died of a heart attack while flying on the Concorde to London on January 25, 1986. He is buried behind his own Bearsville Theater near Woodstock, New York. His widow Sally, ne´e Bueler, an ex-New York City waitress whom he’d married in 1964, and who is the woman in red on the front cover of Bringing It All Back Home, continued to oversee his domain after his death. In 2004, reportedly, she began to sell off some of her late husband’s holdings, including the theatre complex, the Bearsville restaurant and the studios. British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Bringing It All Back Home is an album of original songs by American musician Bob Dylan, released on March 22, 1965. ...

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