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- Birth nameElliot Rabinowitz
- Elliot Roberts was born on February 22, 1943 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for The Frontier (2014), Made in Heaven (1987) and Journey Through the Past (1973). He died on June 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Co-founder of Asylum Records with David Geffen who he initially met when they worked in the William Morris mail room.
- Worked as Neil Young's manager from 1967 until his death.
- Managed Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Jackson Browne, America, the Eagles, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Yes, Morrissey, Devo, Tracy Chapman, Bad Religion, Spiritualized, Mazzy Star.
- Roberts spoke to The Times a week before his death about a blockbuster report on long-suppressed devastation to as many as 500,000 master recordings destroyed by fire in 2008 that gutted a storage vault at Universal Studios Hollywood.
"It's a crime that [the original masters of] Billie Holiday or Buddy Holly or all those artists of the '40s and '50s are gone" Roberts was quoted.
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