Stan Polley Edit Profile artist manager Stanley Herbert Polley was an entertainment manager and later known as an alleged con-man from the 1960s and 1970s. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Evans became another piece of the bands signature lineup. But not long after, Polley had seemingly taken the advance payment and run . There was a problem getting your location. When I first joined the band, it didnt seem as if anybody was paying attention to them. "The younger ones are curious about the band while musicians talk about the guitar parts that inspired them.". THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BRAWL BETWEEN JOHN LENNON AND CHRIS MONTEZ IN 1963! The Firebird was a guitar I was playing for years before I joined Badfinger. The single 'Something'/'Come Together' was released on 31 October 1969. Thats when the plan went to George Harrison producing us., We played with great bands. Anna was born on August 17 1868, in Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, USA. Boasting such memorable tunes as Hams Just A Chance and Dennis, the Chris Thomas-produced Wish You Were Here should have been a triumphant comeback for Badfinger. In 2013, Baby Blue, a record Molland calls "one of the great rock songs" featured in television show Breaking Bad. In their absence, Badfingers music continues to touch the hearts of new generations of listeners. By the next January, the band was done.". It was song six on album No Dice and Molland said they had no idea about its potential until 1971 when Harry Nilsson walked into a recording session. Bath "Warner Brothers had given us 600,000 to sign and I enquired (to the management) about having 1,000 for equipment. The publicity from the Senate hearings later caused several of Polleys clients to sever their ties with him, although its unclear if Badfinger or Bill Collins were aware of this at the time. In 1968, Polley formed a company called Five Arts Management, for his work with singer Lou Christie, musician Al Kooper, arranger Charles Calello, TV director Michael Cooper, composer Sandy Linzer and WABC disc jockey Bob Lewis. The band had been pressured into recording Head First after Polley, realizing that litigation from Warner Bros. was looming, theorized that having a new album in the can would give him leverage in negotiating with the label, and would allow him to extract another advance. My feeling was, Just tag along, man. While McCartney provided the first single, Lennon's piano prowess was pivotal in the search as the band looked to change its name from The Iveys. Please seek professional guidance. based on information from your browser. By this point, the Iveys hometown had a sizable scene of Beatles-inspired beat groups. Search above to list available cemeteries. I thought that was a good album. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. According to The New York Times, Polley was named during Senate-investigation hearings in 1971 as an intermediary between unnamed crime figures and a New York Supreme Court judge. We had a bit of a lowbrow sense of humor. Stanley Herbert Polley(April 7, 1922 - July 20, 2009) was an entertainment manager from the 1960s and 1970s. I think Apple thought it would be a snowball for everyone involved.. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Todd Rundgren was initially hired to produce, but quickly dropped out of the project, which the band completed with producer Chris Thomas. ). The group made their way to America, and were in need of proper management stateside. "Pete trusted him [Polley], but was living in an attic, driving a second-hand Triumph Stag after winning an Ivor Novello award," he said. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 - July 20, 2009) was an American entertainment manager and fraudster active in the 1960s and 1970s. This celebrity has also been counted as part of famous people who are born on April 7. The book, Without You: The Tragic History of Badfinger, describes how the Iveys were in instant awe of Evans musicianship, but his personality took a bit of getting used to. He formed new companies to house future artists he secured, including composers Irwin Levine and Larry Brown. What I knew of the Iveys was that they were a bit too pop for me at the time. New York City, New York, U.S. Died: July 20, 2009 (aged 87) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. George Harrison was always very sweet but very direct. His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. The TV Room David Soref - SorefTV Deep insights into the culture and events surrounding televisions first half-century, and beyond. In 1972, Polley negotiated a record contract with Warner Bros. Records for Badfinger, which called for advances to be paid into an escrow account. The same year, the band released their third record Straight Up, producing two more hits, Day After Day and Baby Blue. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Speaking to BBC's Week In Week Out programme in 1987, the band's solicitor Tim Douglas-Jones said no money from the US was ever recovered. On April 24, 1975, Hams girlfriend, who was pregnant with their daughter at the time, discovered his body hanging in their garage. In 1970, the group hooked up with the music agent Stan Polley, who quickly became their manager. Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyAndroidStitcherBlubrryby EmailTuneInRSS Share this: Facebook Twitter Like this: LikeLoading. In 1991, having relocated to the West Coast, he pleaded no contest to charges of money laundering and misappropriation of funds, after aeronautics engineer Peter Brock accused Polley of swindling him out of $250,000 after the two set up a corporation to manufacture airplane engines. I wasnt involved in those things. PolleyBadfinger EnterprisesInc.Stan PosesPolley I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody, Ham wrote. Pete Ham was born in Townhill, Swansea and made his first guitar in school woodwork class. On the night of November 18, 1983, Evans had a heated phone argument with Molland about the Apple stalemate. . The band fell apart. Polley pushed the band to work on a new album so he could get his hands on a $350K advance that Warner was owing, but the album was rejected by the label due to pending legal action. Husband of Joan (Scott) Polley for 64 years. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, Nirvana were really great - never liked any other 'grunge' bands, only later liked some Mudhoney - though i did own a flannel shirt, but, SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES, ALL THE RAJ: HOW NORWEGIAN WOOD UNLEASHED THE INDIAN INVASION, THE KNACK AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES, PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II, UTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL. The label initially thought the album had no hits and Rolling Stone magazine would rate it as one of the best records of the year. Ironically, eight years later, Tom Evans would choose . "But Pete got mad. Polley had gained a positive reputation with musician clients. Phil Spector was in the control room, and now that I remember it, so was George Harrison.. After Pete killed himself, the band broke up for a time, but some years later you and Tom got together again. Later that morning, his body was cut down by his bandmate Tom Evans. Husband of Joan (Scott) Polley for 64 years. It was surreal. Hams Apple of My Eye, which reflected his mixed feelings about leaving the labelthe album was a musical and commercial disappointment. The original title the band had come up with was For the Love of Money but was rejected by Warner Brothers. "I was angry years later, angry that we didn't value at the time who we were, what we were.". Ironically, although he was virtually penniless, Evans had more than a million dollars worth of publishing royalties that remained frozen at Apple, waiting for Badfingers tangled legal issues to be resolved. "Pete had an affair with a roadie's wife, which caused a lot of not good feeling. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Unable to get a hold of the bands manager, Warner filed a lawsuit against Badfinger Enterprises and Stan Polley over the missing funds. He was that good. Not everyone was fully convinced though. We did 50 or 60 dates on our first tour, and then a year later we did another tour. It was eight years later. Tommy wanted it done a certain way, but I wanted it to be done the way we had agreed originally. For math, science, nutrition, history . On this site which analyses celebrities, Stan is well known as one of the top stars. No, we didnt. The Beatles werent really hanging around or anything. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. The date of birth lined up with the Lester Brown we're familiar But bad business dealings - the group had entrusted their financial affairs to an American businessman, Stan Polley, who ultimately swindled them out of millions and left the members all but broke - splintered Badfinger, and in 1975, Pete Ham hanged himself in the garage of his Surrey home. Paul McCartney later read the article, and to make amends, he allowed the band to record one of his demos called Come and Get It. McCartney praised The Iveys for their interpretation of the song, and it would be included as part of the soundtrack for the film, The Magic Christian. I meet people all the time who know our music. We could always write songs; we could always play. The band soon expanded to a five-man lineup, featuring keyboardist Bob Jackson, but that was short-lived. Year should not be greater than current year. We had to all sit down at a table and agree how it was going to be divided, and then we had to get lawyers involved. Think about that: We were selling millions of records and were on the radio all day, all over the world. In fact, some referred to the band as, The new Fab Four and they were handpicked by the members of the Beatles themselves. We were changing our sound a bit more at this time. And the first band-member to commit suicide, Pete Ham, (age 27, of course), left a note saying, "Stan Polley is a soulless bastard." On the morning of 19 November 1983, after a poor Badfinger come-back attempt, and continued financial problems from Polley, band-member Tom Evans also hung himself. It was thought that businessman Alan Klein, who had been brought into Apple Records to help clean up the company, put the kibosh on them releasing the album in America. In August 1970 American business manager Stan Polley sweet-talked Bill Collins into doing business with him. I wish it wouldve gone differently. Polley, meanwhile, paid the band members individual salaries, which the musicianswho by now were locked into an exhausting cycle of near-constant touring and recordingcomplained were paltry in relation to the actual earnings that they were generating. According to a subsequent New York Times investigation, Polley was named during Senate investigation hearings in 1971 as an intermediary between unnamed organized-crime figures and a corrupt New York Supreme Court judge. Stan Polley (swindled the rock group Badfinger, the lead singer became broke and committed suicide) Henry Kissinger (Nixon's handler) Robert Oppenheimer (directed the development of the first nuclear bombs) Nostradamus (fraud) Samuel Byck (murderer, planned to assassinate Nixon by flying a plane into the White House) He began artist management after he met Christie in the mid-1960s. Ham died at the age of 27. At the time, Evans was also being pursued by original manager Bill Collins and former bandmates Gibbins and Molland, all of them seeking a share of the Apple publishing funds. In the 90s, Molland angered some fans by recording remakes of ten vintage Badfinger tunes, which were then released on CD by a series of low-rent labels, often with photos of the original band misrepresenting the musical contents. Father of Lorraine & Blair Burns of Listowel, Glenn & Diane Polley of Pickering, Bryan & Fiona Polley of Brampton, and Dean & Diane Polley of Ajax. But after enjoying success in the UK and United States they plunged into financial turmoil, and "genius" Pete Ham was found hanged, aged 27. With no viable path to a serious career, most of Swanseas bands were content to remain semi-professional. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. The failure of Maybe Tomorrow in the U.S. and U.K. hit the Iveys hard, and Apples organizational problems created an additional level that frustrated the bands efforts to come up with a new single. His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. Meanwhile, Stan Polley forced a battle between Apple and Warner Bros. over Badfingers song publishing, causing the substantial royalty payments for the bands hits (and for Nilssons cover of Without You) to be tied in a legal knot that would take years to untangle. Evans wife Marianne later quoted him as saying I want to be where Pete is. Upon its release in December 1969 in Britain and January 1970 in the U.S., Come and Get It lived up to McCartneys prediction and became a worldwide Top Ten hit. The extra effort proved worthwhile, and Straight Up, released in December 1971, continued Badfingers success, although some critics expressed reservations about the albums softer, less rocking sound. Stan Polley. There were some tensions, but not necessarily from Pete. This is better," Ham wrote, adding: "Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. His potentially provocative comments proved to be a blessing when Paul McCartney read the piece, and responded by offering the band Come And Get It, an infectious new tune hed written for the soundtrack of the upcoming Ringo Starr/Peter Sellers film The Magic Christian. It was a contract the band would regret signing. At around the same time, the band members modest salary checks stopped arriving. We didnt have any money. Despite the bands bitter career travails, there has never been any lapse in demand for Badfingers music. Although it would take another five years for Capitol Records to actually release it on CD, Badfingers albums have been reissued multiple times in the years since, and the bands songs remain beloved staples of oldies and classic-rock radio. This browser does not support getting your location. The band would release their seventh studio album, Wish You Were Here in late 1974 which received much critical acclaim, but was abruptly pulled from store shelves by Warner after the label discovered that their $250,000 advance payment to the bands management went missing. His clients were mostly American artists, including Al Kooper and Lou Christie, but Polley is mostly known for his alleged mismanagement of the British band Badfinger. Unable to locate the funds, Warner sued Polley. Ham's last note . It was through his association with Christie that he met and began working with other artists in the New York and Los Angeles entertainment fields. It had nothing to do with Pete dying, as some have suggested. Amid. Yes, their manager, Stan Polley, screwed both the band and the record label by absconding with the advance money through a series of schemes and shell companies. They soon discovered that, through dubious contractual obligations to Polley, they were completely broke. Badfinger: Tom Evans, Mike Gibbins, Joey Molland, and Pete Ham, Co-edited by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, the authors of, The Knack had an amazing sound. On April 24, 1975, Ham's girlfriend, who was pregnant with their daughter at the time, discovered his body hanging in their garage. Peter William Ham was born on April 27, 1947, the youngest of three siblings, in Swansea, Wales. I wanted to play guitar music with a harder bite to it. Ham took his life by hanging himself on April 24, 1975, three days prior to his 28th birthday. In an interview in Disc & Music Echo magazine, bassist Ron Griffiths complained about Apple neglecting the Iveys. I didnt even have my own amp at the time. "After that, concerts started selling out, it was like we had a hit record again. Evans stated, We were told so many times that the Iveys was a stupid name. He sounded great. Bill Collins, related to classic-Kinks manager Grenville Collins of Robert owes half to Grenville? By Monday morning, the . Impressed, Evans passed copies of the Iveys demo tape to John, Paul, George and Ringo, ultimately gaining all four Beatles approval to sign the band to Apple. A system error has occurred. Ten million people watched Sunday's final episode of Breaking Bad, with a touching farewell scene set to Badfinger's 1971 ballad Baby Blue. "As soon as I joined, the record came out, it was a big smash hit and it was the last we saw of Paul for years.". No Dice also featured the heartbreaking Ham/Evans ballad Without You, which would become a Number One smash for Harry Nilssonwho initially thought that it was a Beatles songin 1972, and a worldwide hit for Mariah Carey in 1994. Without more biographical information and details about his other artist-clients, this page probably could be blanked. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. We knew it was a good song, and we enjoyed playing it. He said he couldnt relate to anybody. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Maybe he heard what Harry eventually did, but we just werent that kind of band. In 1966, a lifeline to the outside world appeared in the person of an Englishman named Bill Collins. By this point in time, Ron Griffiths left the group due to friction between himself and Tom Evans and the fact that his family life took precedence. Stan made a good first impression on the band and led them to believe that he would take them to new heights, only for it to be the complete opposite. Your email address will not be published. This is better. Adding in his post script, Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody. [1] After serving as a corporal in the U.S. Army during World War II, he practiced law and worked in retail shops before beginning his managerial career in New York's garment industry. God, as they say, is merciful. It would drag on through the courts for years, tying up millions of dollars. From left: Pete Ham, Tommy Evans, Mike Gibbons, Joey Molland. Sometime after that, Ham hanged himself in his garage studio, leaving a note apologizing to his pregnant girlfriend Anne Herriot. Pete had a lot of faith in him, and I dont know why because the guy was a crook. "We went through hundreds and Badfinger Boogie was suggested. I dont really know he never really talked to us! His unassuming manner led others to feel comfortable confiding in him and seeking his advice. Family members linked to this person will appear here. McCartney was so pleased with the results that he turned the job of recording two more new songs for The Magic Christiana task for which he had originally signed onover to the Iveys. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, I really miss the great musical groups of the 1960's. There, they shared the overcrowded space with the Mojos, another group that Collins managed which included his son Lewis Collins, later a noted TV actor. His general discomfort expressing his deepest emotions influenced him to turn to songwriting as an outlet. It was great that it was so successful it was Song of the Year. On the morning of April 24, 1975, he was found to have . It was fantastic! Evans, Molland and Gibbins all drifted back into music, and in 1979, Evans and Molland reunited in a new U.S.-based band that eventually adopted the familiar Badfinger name. By the time he joined Badfinger, Molland had accumulated a good deal of professional experience, having played with such acts as the Merseys, the Masterminds and Gary Walker & the Rain. In addition to stopping Badfingers career dead in its tracks, the legal conflicts cut off the musicians income and plunged them into financial destitution, with virtually nothing to show for their years of creativity and hard work. Pete was friendly, personable and well liked by virtually everyone who knew him. The leader of rock group Badfinger, Pete Ham (3rd from the left), is a member of the 27 Club. [3] He is interred in the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. I will take him with. Eight years later, in an eerily similar and no less tragic manner, Evans also hanged himself following a dispute about unpaid royalties. It was through Duffield that the Iveys met the Kinks leader Ray Davies, who took a liking to Pete and expressed interest in producing the foursome. George Harrison was most involved, playing guitar and calling Badfinger his band. Their new Warner Bros. contract called for Badfinger to deliver a new album every six months. Read about our approach to external linking. The strain had increasingly shown in his behavior, with friends seeing him put out cigarettes on his arms and hands. It was a turning point but for all the wrong reasons. But it didnt take long for the eager young quartets bright prospects to turn unimaginably dark, sending the band into a bleak, bottomless abyss from which Ham and Evans would never escape. I feel as if things couldve turned out differently. Failed to remove flower. For me, getting into the guitar started when I heard Elvis Presleys Blue Suede Shoes. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stan_Polley&oldid=1137844902, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 19:06. 0 cemeteries found in Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Stanley Polley (72635714)? Surprisingly, his skills are more suited to the drums. Average Age & Life Expectancy . Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. But Harrison was busy planning his all-star Concert for Bangladesh benefit showsin which Badfinger would participateand dropped out of Straight Up after completing four songs and playing the distinctive slide guitar hook on Hams Day After Day. The album was completed with Rundgren, who recorded some new tracks with the band, mixed the tapes from the Harrison sessions and recut some of the material that the band had recorded with Emerick. Badfinger's manager, Stan Polley, put together a contract with Warner Bros. Records in 1972. GREAT NEWS! [3], The following year, in 1972, Polley negotiated a record contract with Warner Bros. Records for Badfinger, which called for advances to be paid into an escrow account. The song reached the Top 10 in several European countries but, despite some BBC airplay and a promotional push in America, it stalled at Number 67 in the U.S. and failed to chart altogether in Britain. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Pete had seen Evans perform with his band Them Calderstones, a Mod outfit that specialized in Motown and soul covers. Badfinger continued its hot streak with 1971s Straight Up, whose production is credited to George Harrison, Todd Rundgren and Geoff Emerick. "325,000 cash we'd received and in three months it was gone. If we had different management, we could have gone on. Try again later. However, there's a chilling connection to the singer's tragic end. They thought the Iveys had something. As detailed in "Suicide in the Entertainment Industry," by David K. Frasier, the band found financial representation in New York businessman Stan Polley, who netted them a six-figure contract with Warner Records in 1974, but would only give them a grand a month in allowance. No jingle-jangle stuff. They were really nice, and they wanted to play some beat songs. What kind of guitarist were you back in the '60s before you finally hooked up with Badfinger? To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. It kind of made sense with the other titles No Dice, Straight Up. He went away and took the tapes; we never did overdubs or anything. Although initially skeptical of Polley, Collins admired his successful mindset. By that point, Ham, Evans and Gibbins had already each resigned at various times over the previous two years, but had all been persuaded to return. Despite their divergent temperaments, Pete and Tom shared a common musical sensibility, and the two quickly became fast friends and enthusiastic collaborators. Applebee, and the girls would be screaming, screaming, screaming, but then hed go, Hang on a minute, look to the other side andthere would be crowds around Dai. The situation weighed most heavily on Pete Ham. S tan Polley (1922- ) is a retired American music entrepreneur who, for a time, managed the business ventures of several musicians. Tommys abiding love for the Everly Brothers manifested itself in his facility for vocal harmony. But I enjoyed it. We were all quite pleased for them., We didnt have any money. Tommy had his reasons for it, but they werent our reasons. For the first half of the '70s, Badfinger were flying high, racking up hit singles and albums while touring the world (Ham and Evans also saw their composition Without You, a Badfinger track from the bands second album, No Dice, become a global No.1 when Harry Nilsson and producer Richard Perry gloriously re-imagined it on the singers 1971 album, Nilsson Schmilsson). As Badfingers chief creative force, the sensitive bandleader bore the lions share of the mental burden, and the prospect of the imminent birth of his first child intensified the pressure. Unbelievable. The bands first album under the Badfinger moniker was Magic Christian Music, which was released in early 1970. He was always very sweet but very direct. 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We all had the same idea in mind. Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. PS Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. Edward was born on January 15 1872, in Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois, USA. "Somewhere along the way, we lost that cohesiveness, belief in each other that we could trust each other with our children, our lives. He was very communicative. He was a very good producer in every way.. Evans possessed a mercurial personality that contrasted with Petes even-keeled approach. Hed come over, sit with me or the other guys, and hed play a song. Stan notoriously crippled the band financially by stealing funds for himself. As a subscriber enjoy big savings off the shop price! I will take him with me." Mr Matovina will say: "It's a very hard business, full of shysters, huge egos and people more than willing to use others for . At around the time of its release, the details of Polleys complex financial schemes began to surface. In 1970, Polley registered Badfinger Enterprises, Inc. as a corporate entity for management of the British rock group Badfinger, which had no American representation at the time. By 1974, we were getting somewhat suspicious about it. I couldnt believe the luck we were having. Co-writer Tommy Evans took a different approach and had a "burning ambition" to write a hit record, but he struggled finding a verse for Without You. The American label people didnt like them. The net profit from the corporation totaled about $25,000 while Polleys management fee was $76,000. We all choose the songs. Manager Stan Polley had negotiated a contract with Warner Bros. for Badfinger, setting up for advances to be paid into an escrow account. Recently read Stan Polley, of Badfinger fame , died in Summer of '09. 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