Michael Jeffery (Manager)

Frank Michael Jeffery (born March 4, 1933 in Peckham ( South London ), England , † March 5, 1973 in Nantes , France ) was an English manager in the music business. He managed The Animals and Jimi Hendrix , among others .

Life

Jeffery first completed his English military service and then began a career in the military as a professional soldier. At times he was also stationed in Egypt. At the same time he is said to have worked as an agent for the British secret service MI6 . The exact professional career is difficult to research, and Jeffery didn't talk much about his work with his father either.

In the early 1960s, Jeffery opened Club-A-Go-go in Newcastle and henceforth focused on a career in the music industry.

The Animals

Jeffery came into contact with the British rock band The Animals and became their manager. During the first few years of the band, he brought them to the top of the English charts within a few weeks, also through regular appearances at Club-A-Go-go.

After the dissolution of the Animals in 1969 due to internal disputes, many fans, but also band members, accused that Jeffery was responsible for these discrepancies.

Jimi Hendrix

In 1966, the former bass player who decided Animals , Chas Chandler to end his previous musical career and to be active as a manager in the music business. With financial support from his former manager Jeffery, Chandler built the band Jimi Hendrix Experience in September 1966 and accompanied them through their career until 1968. After that, Jeffery took control of Jimi Hendrix 'public life and at the same time excluded Chandler from the following activities of the band .

Quarrel and Hendrix's death

It is reported that Jeffery founded a front company called Yameta for the formation of the Jimi Hendrix Experience , with which he embezzled large parts of Hendrix's later fees. Part of this money went to the Chemical Bank in Nassau, Bahamas and the Nova Scotia Bank . After Hendrix found out about Jeffery's dubious activities, he wanted to get rid of Jeffery's management and filed a lawsuit against him. A court hearing for Jeffery to appear was scheduled shortly before Hendrix's death in September 1970.

In his autobiography Rock Roadie , published in 2009, Hendrix's former roadie James Wright accuses Hendrix manager Jeffery of the murder of Hendrix: Jeffery had taken out life insurance for Hendrix and registered himself as a beneficiary in order to obtain an insurance sum of 1.2 in the event of success To be able to cash out millions of pounds.

death

Jeffery died in a 1973 airplane crash over France . In addition to him, all 67 other inmates were killed.

literature

Constantine, Alex: Kill Rock'n'Roll ; 2002, Strange Verlag, 40699 Erkrath, ISBN 3-89064-813-4
Shapiro, Harry; Glebbeek, Caesar: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Gypsy. (From the English by Ingeborg Schober ). Cologne 1993, vgs Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-8025-2243-5
Wright, James Tappy: Rock Roadie: Backstage and Confidential with Hendrix, Elvis, the "Animals", Tina Turner, and an All-star Cast; 2009, JR Books Ltd. ISBN 1906779066

Movies

Executive Producer of Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge (1970)

Documentaries

Jimi Hendrix - The Last 24 Hours (2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Mail Online, May 31, 2009 "Jimmy Hendrix 'was murdered' by his manager, claims roadie", accessed on April 22, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Jeffery, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jeffery, Frank Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English manager in the music business
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peckham ( South London ), England
DATE OF DEATH	March 5th 1973
Place of death	Nantes , France

[1] Mail Online, May 31, 2009 "Jimmy Hendrix 'was murdered' by his manager, claims roadie", accessed on April 22, 2013