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
Graham Gouldman chart success, and 1983's "Windows in the Jungle" became the last 10cc album for almost a decade. In 1979, Gouldman scored a minor hit with his single "Sunburn", written for the Farrah Fawcett / Charles Grodin film of the same name. Two years later he produced the "Pleasant Dreams" album for the Ramones. Between 1984 and 1990, Gouldman teamed with American singer Andrew Gold, with whom he had co-written material in 1981, to form Wax. They produced four albums. Gold described how the partnership began: Gouldman, reflecting in 2018, later referred to his relationship with Gold as one of the