In recent years, the entertainment world at large has come to recognize the talents of a man known in the music industry as a manager's manager. Dee Anthony has, in over twenty-six years in show business, developed the careers of great pop and rock performers from both the United States and Europe. His personal warmth, artistic conviction and professional versatility have made him one of the most successful personal managers in the entertainment world today.
Today Dee Anthony is best known as Peter Frampton's manager. Their relationship goes back eight years when Anthony brought Humble Pie to the United States. The group disbanded in 1971 and Peter went out on his own. Together Anthony and Frampton weathered five years of artistic growth and countless personal appearances. In 1976 they met with astounding success. The double album, "Frampton Comes Alive," broke record-selling history that year and has, to date, sold over fourteen million copies.
Anthony began his career as a manager working weekends with a young singer and neighborhood friend, Jerry Vale. The first artist he signed was Tony Bennett, whom he managed over ten years. During that time he learned everything from stage management, press promotion and agency relationships, to contract negotiations. He learned to build the self-confidence of his artists and to refine their showmanship while he simultaneously attended to their business affairs -- assuring their freedom and their survival. In short, he perfected the art of good management.
In the mid-60's, at the same time Robert Stigwood was launching The Bee Gees and Cream, Dee also sensed a great change in the music business. He became involved in the British wave of rock 'n' roll by assuming the American management of King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Ten Years After and many others. He built a formidable reputation with these artists, monitoring every aspect of their performance and won the respect and friendship of everyone tied to his acts from record company presidents to concert promoters. "He relates to how an artist handles himself on stage," says promoter Bill Graham.
By 1968, Dee and his brother, Bill Anthony, had founded their own exclusive personal management company, Bandana Enterprises. With the success of such clients as The J Geils Band, Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, Joe Cocker, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, Bandana expanded into the realm of publishing, merchandising and management consultation. Currently, the company's clients include Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Peter Allen and the brilliant young guitarist Al Di Meola.
For two consecutive years ('76 & '77) Anthony was awarded the "Billboard Manager of the Year" award and was recently voted "Manager of the Year" by the readers of Performance Magazine.
Today Dee Anthony is best known as Peter Frampton's manager. Their relationship goes back eight years when Anthony brought Humble Pie to the United States. The group disbanded in 1971 and Peter went out on his own. Together Anthony and Frampton weathered five years of artistic growth and countless personal appearances. In 1976 they met with astounding success. The double album, "Frampton Comes Alive," broke record-selling history that year and has, to date, sold over fourteen million copies.
Anthony began his career as a manager working weekends with a young singer and neighborhood friend, Jerry Vale. The first artist he signed was Tony Bennett, whom he managed over ten years. During that time he learned everything from stage management, press promotion and agency relationships, to contract negotiations. He learned to build the self-confidence of his artists and to refine their showmanship while he simultaneously attended to their business affairs -- assuring their freedom and their survival. In short, he perfected the art of good management.
In the mid-60's, at the same time Robert Stigwood was launching The Bee Gees and Cream, Dee also sensed a great change in the music business. He became involved in the British wave of rock 'n' roll by assuming the American management of King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Ten Years After and many others. He built a formidable reputation with these artists, monitoring every aspect of their performance and won the respect and friendship of everyone tied to his acts from record company presidents to concert promoters. "He relates to how an artist handles himself on stage," says promoter Bill Graham.
By 1968, Dee and his brother, Bill Anthony, had founded their own exclusive personal management company, Bandana Enterprises. With the success of such clients as The J Geils Band, Humble Pie, Steve Marriott, Joe Cocker, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, Bandana expanded into the realm of publishing, merchandising and management consultation. Currently, the company's clients include Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Peter Allen and the brilliant young guitarist Al Di Meola.
For two consecutive years ('76 & '77) Anthony was awarded the "Billboard Manager of the Year" award and was recently voted "Manager of the Year" by the readers of Performance Magazine.
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