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
Harvey Lisberg – their only US top 20 hit. In 1987, Lisberg colluded with Brian Berg of Polydor to reunite the two camps on one compilation which manifested as "Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme", the best-selling 10cc album to date. Godley and Creme themselves split up in 1988. The success of "Changing Faces" prompted Polydor to ask for another album featuring all four original band members which was delivered, in a diluted form, with 10cc's tenth album, "Meanwhile" (1992). A few years later, Avex, the biggest independent record label in Japan, commissioned and released 10cc's