Larry Parnes

LARRY PARNES d1989. British pop manager and impresario. He was the first major British rock manager and his stable of singers included many of the most successful British rock and roll singers of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His reputation was later damaged by testimony from many of the artists he managed in the late fifties and early sixties who alleged they were exploited. He died in London from meningitis aged 59 on August 4th 1989