Talk:Robert Stigwood

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We really have far too much of this article. --194.82.45.23 03:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. This is a good, in-depth description of this man's career. Eligius (talk) 01:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I agree this is far too much detail into Stigwood's business deals and not enough about his success such as with the Bee Gees who credit him with turning their careers around. This fact isn't even mentioned in this article only that they were at rock bottom in 1970. Stigwood turned the Bee Gees into superstars inviting them to provide songs for his Saturday Night Live film. This article seems a little biased and negative. Clean it up please. ~~

Negative - it's incredibly negative! I removed a () about "no doubt at NEMS expense" and was about to remove this bit of text "Five years later Travolta again displayed his now-legendary inability to pick roles"... now-legendary ability? Has this article been vandalised or something? There are lots of places where the text has this kind of petty, nit-picking with no sources and I can't see how to take them out without breaking something. A really bad article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.195.135 (talk) 23:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Sources etc?

I don't know how to add the WIKI stuff but I've shown below a typical paragraph with the bits in CAPS that need serious work.

Later successes and disappointments

Stigwood moved into film and TV production in the early 1970s (SOURCE?). By this time the fortunes of his pop production enterprises had declined greatly (SAYS WHO?), and both his major acts struggled to regain their former glory. The Bee Gees broke up briefly in 1970 (SAYS WHO?), and after reuniting they floundered for several years ("FLOUNDERED"??), reaching a self-acknowledged "rock bottom" period in the early 1970s, by which time the former chart toppers had been reduced to (REDUCED TO??) playing the working mens club circuit in the north of England. Cream had split up in late 1968, although lead guitarist Eric Clapton remained signed to RSO, but his next project, the highly touted supergroup Blind Faith, which united Clapton and Ginger Baker with Steve Winwood (ex Traffic) and Rick Grech (ex Family) fizzled out after just one LP. Clapton made a promising solo debut with his critically praised self-titled 1970 album, and followed this by forming a new band, Derek & The Dominos, with ex-members of Delaney and Bonnie's backing group. They recorded an ambitious double-album with considerable input from Duane Allman, whom Clapton met and befriended just after the sessions began. Although Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) is now acknowledged as his masterpiece, the album's relatively poor critical and commercial reception (NEEDS SOURCES SURELY??) was overshadowed by the tragic deaths of Eric Clapton's close friends Jimi Hendrix (who died while the sessions were underway) and the subsequent death of Allman himself in October 1971. These tragedies, combined with the angst of his unrequited love for Patti Boyd (SOURCE??), sent Clapton into a downward spiral of depression and drug abuse (ARE WE SURE IT WAS "THESE TRAGEDIES"?). Derek & The Dominos broke up before a second album could be completed, Clapton withdrew from performing and he became addicted to heroin for several years (PROOF/SOURCE?). Happily (HAPPILY ACCORDING TO WHOM??) Clapton eventually kicked his habit (! BAD ENGLISH), and Stigwood took him back to Miami, where he recorded his very successful (BY WHOSE STANDARD?) 'comeback' album 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974), which included his US #1 hit version of Bob Marley's "I Shot The Sheriff". With his music ventures in the doldrums (BAD ENGLISH), Stigwood expanded into film production in the early 1970s with great success (SOURCE? ACCORDING TO WHOM?). His first feature was a hit screen adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), made in association with its director, Norman Jewison. He followed this with the film version of The Who's Tommy (1975), which became one of most successful films at the box-office in its year of release.

This section has lots of stuff that needs sorting out but I don't want to break anything so the example above gives someone more skilled than I a starting point.