Albert Grossman

Albert Grossman (d. 1986) is best known as the manager of Bob Dylan (whom he sued for unpaid commissions in the 1980s).

Related Topics:
1986 - Manager - Bob Dylan

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He also handled, at one time or another, the careers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, Gordon Lightfoot, The Band, Ian and Sylvia and Janis Joplin. Before going into management, he was a co-owner of The Gate of Horn, a successful Chicago folk club, and in 1959, with George Wein, organized the first Newport Folk Festival.

Related Topics:
Peter, Paul and Mary - Odetta - Gordon Lightfoot - The Band - Ian and Sylvia - Janis Joplin - The Gate of Horn - George Wein - Newport Folk Festival

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In 1969 he built the Bearsville Recording Studio (still run by his widow, Sally Grossman, the woman in red on the cover of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home), in the Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York, and the next year founded Bearsville Records.

Related Topics:
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - Catskill Mountains - Woodstock, New York - Bearsville Records

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He appears in the film Don't Look Back.

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