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In the late 1990s, Tigrett launched The Spirit Channel, an enterprise offering services related to [[spirituality]] and health through the Internet, traditional media and physical locations. The venture failed to take off. In 2004, Tigrett launched yet another new venture, the [[Bozo Project]], focusing on the restaurant business.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} |
In the late 1990s, Tigrett launched The Spirit Channel, an enterprise offering services related to [[spirituality]] and health through the Internet, traditional media and physical locations. The venture failed to take off. In 2004, Tigrett launched yet another new venture, the [[Bozo Project]], focusing on the restaurant business.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} |
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Tigrett was influenced by his [[guru|spiritual guide]], [[Sathya Sai Baba|Sri Sathya Sai Baba]].<ref>Andrew Buncombe, [[The Independent]], '' Hard Rock Cafe: The tribe that bought a billion dollar business'', December 12, 2006, [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2056293.ece Available online]</ref> |
Tigrett was influenced by his [[guru|spiritual guide]], [[Sathya Sai Baba|Sri Sathya Sai Baba]].<ref>Andrew Buncombe, [[The Independent]], '' Hard Rock Cafe: The tribe that bought a billion dollar business'', December 12, 2006, [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2056293.ece Available online]</ref> |
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HOB was sold to [[Live Nation]] in 2006 and only the Myrtle Beach venue remains in private hands owned by [[Andrew Filipowski]]. |
HOB was sold to [[Live Nation]] in 2006 and only the Myrtle Beach venue remains in private hands owned by [[Andrew Filipowski]]. |
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Isaac Tigrett (born 1947) of Jackson, Tennessee is a businessman best known as founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues.
Tigrett belonged to a well-to-do business family. He was raised in Tennessee until the age of fifteen. He is an alumnus of Centre College, which later gave him an honorary degree (in 1997) for promoting African American culture and racial harmony.[citation needed]
On June 14, 1971 he and Peter Morton started the first Hard Rock Café (HRC) restaurant in London's fashionable Mayfair district. The restaurant combined rock music, memorabilia related to rock 'n' roll and American cuisine. The cafe-music-museum concept became very popular and soon the restaurant opened units in different parts of the globe. HRC was the first theme restaurant chain in the world.[citation needed] Tigrett bought Morton out, and took on the original Cafe in London along with rights to the name in most of the world including the US States East of the Mississippi; Morton had rights to the name in states West of the Mississippi and in Israel, Colombia and Australia.
Eventually both sold their interests in HRC to the Rank Organisation.
In 1992, Tigrett started the House of Blues (HOB) with partner, Dan Aykroyd and designer James Cafarelli. Harvard University was an initial investor in the business and a prototype was opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soon after Disney and Andrew Filipowski invested in the venture. Differences of opinion between Tigrett and the other HOB board members over operations resulted in Tigrett leaving the venture in 1998.[citation needed]
In the late 1990s, Tigrett launched The Spirit Channel, an enterprise offering services related to spirituality and health through the Internet, traditional media and physical locations. The venture failed to take off. In 2004, Tigrett launched yet another new venture, the Bozo Project, focusing on the restaurant business.[citation needed]
Tigrett was influenced by his spiritual guide, Sri Sathya Sai Baba.[1]
HOB was sold to Live Nation in 2006 and only the Myrtle Beach venue remains in private hands owned by Andrew Filipowski.
In 1989 Tigrett married Maureen Cox Starkey, the ex-wife of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr. She died of leukemia in 1994. With great affection Isaac often introduced her as "My most authentic piece of rock and roll memorabilia." They had a daughter Augusta King Tigrett born January 4, 1987 in Dallas, Texas.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, Hard Rock Cafe: The tribe that bought a billion dollar business, December 12, 2006, Available online
External links
- Personal page Personal Page of Isaac Tigrett
- Official Bio