John Reid is a Scottish manager and music industry figure, currently living and working in Australia.
Between 1975 and 1978, Reid was the manager of British rock group Queen[1] and Kevin Ayers. For some 25 years he was the manager of Elton John, but their relationship ended with acrimonious legal action in 2000[2] over a leaked letter from his accountants detailing Elton's spending which was found by Benjamin Pell and published in the Daily Mirror.
In Australia, he is best known for being a judge on the local version of The X Factor.
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Reid was born in Paisley, the son of John Reid, a welder, and Betty, a supermarket worker. Apart from 3 years in New Zealand, he was brought up in the tough Gallowhill district of the royal burgh, and educated at St Mirin's Academy, where he was a fellow pupil of singer Gerry Rafferty and writer John Byrne, and Stow College in Glasgow, where he studied marine engineering. After a failed attempt to launch a band with his brother Robert, a painter and decorator, he moved to New Zealand and then London.
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