Elliot Roberts, legendary music manager who worked with classic rock icons like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, has died. He was 76.
Born Elliot Rabinowitz in 1943, Roberts was prominent in the rise of the Laurel Canyon music scene throughout the ’60s and ’70s. He managed Mitchell early in her career, when she was living in New York. The two moved to Los Angeles together in 1967 with her then-boyfriend, David Crosby.
That same year, Roberts formed Lookout Management with agent David Geffen, and eventually created Asylum Records, which signed major artists like the Eagles. Lookout Management worked with Tom Petty, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Talking Heads and Morrissey, among many others. Roberts' most famous manager-client relationship was with Young, which began in 1969 and continued until Roberts' death.
"Neil had a lot of things that were important to us -- not because they sold well," Roberts said at the time. "I think of it as we're introducing him to a younger audience, a new audience. We know there's our core audience that's 50-70 or so. That's always been the case, and it's nice to actually have.
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