Giorgio Gomelsky New York City. He was 81. Giorgio Gomelsky Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky (28 February 1934 – 13 January 2016) was a film maker, impresario, music manager, songwriter (as Oscar Rasputin) and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the United Kingdom and the United States. He owned the "Crawdaddy Club" in London where The Rolling Stones were the house band, and he was involved with their early management. He hired The Yardbirds as a replacement and managed them. He was also their producer from the beginning through 1966. In 1967, he started
The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record conceived series of repackages after the band left Decca for Atlantic in 1970. The final section of the book includes a United States discography as well as a brief overview of bootleg Stones recordings released by that time. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record is a 1976 book by music journalist Roy Carr, published by Harmony Books. The book contains an extensive discography of record releases by the Rolling Stones up to that time (the latest being "Black and Blue"), with critical reviews of each release by Carr. Sidebars give a concurrent history of