His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. Did you have any inkling that Pete Ham would commit suicide? Aeronautics engineer Peter Brock accused Polley of swindling him out of $250,000 (equivalent to $497,000 in 2021) after the two set up a corporation to manufacture airplane engines. It also included an accusatory blast toward Badfinger's business manager, Stan Polley: "P.S. Financially and emotionally destroyed a great band leading to the hanging deaths of both Pete Ham & Tom Evans in '75 & '83 respectively. [Laughs] He was a complete genius as a singer, writer and just well, he was John Lennon! With Pete gone and Badfingers recording career off the rails, Hams surviving bandmates attempted to piece their lives back together, while the multiple band-related lawsuits slowly worked their way through the court system on both sides of the Atlantic. Do you remember what kind of guitar and amp setup you used on that? HARLEM OF THE WEST: SAN FRANCISCOS FILLMORE DISTRICT, BEAT SURRENDER: RECLAIMING THE LEGACY OF LUCIEN CARR. [6], In 1991, Polley pleaded no contest to charges of misappropriating funds and money laundering in Riverside County, California. Apple was facing financial troubles, and as a result, the 1969 release of their album Maybe Tomorrow, which was planned to be put out worldwide, didnt include the United States. A more conscience-free liar, thief and bullshitter . I meet people all the time who know our music. Father of Lorraine & Blair Burns of Listowel, Glenn & Diane Polley of Pickering, Bryan & Fiona Polley of Brampton, and Dean & Diane Polley of Ajax. He began artist management after he met Christie in the mid-1960s. Polley had gained a positive reputation with musician clients. Stan Polley decided to pounce on the weakness and shop his superstar band around to potential bidders. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. For me, getting into the guitar started when I heard Elvis Presleys Blue Suede Shoes. The group made their way to America, and were in need of proper management stateside. This year saw Joey Molland, the sole surviving member of Badfingers classic lineup, return with a new solo album, Be True to Yourself. If you need a drummer for your Beatles tribute band, look him up. Nationality: American: Occupation: Entertainment Manager: Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 - July 20, 2009) was an entertainment manager active in the 1960s and 1970s. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Molland stirred further controversy by releasing Day After Day, a recording of a 1974 show by Badfingers classic lineup, augmented with posthumous guitar and vocal overdubs and drum samples. It was surreal. The band signed a contract with Warner Brothers in late 1973 and very quickly, problems arose. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. The people in the States thought it sounded crude and rough. This was the beginnings of mechandising. Desperate and in the throes of depression, Ham hanged himself in his garage in 1975. Their girlfriends and wives wondered why the band was living in a cramped house while their songs were being played on the radio and they were jamming with ex-Beatles members. It wasnt until Come and Get It came out that the perception changed for Badfinger. The SG was given to us by George Harrison. Ham took his life by hanging himself on April 24, 1975, three days prior to his 28th birthday. "But on the whole, the same fans come. Despite its rushed birth cycle, the resulting Wish You Were Here was a meticulously constructed mini-masterpiece. WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL? The band had been pressured into recording Head First after Polley, realizing that litigation from Warner Bros. was looming, theorized that having a new album in the can would give him leverage in negotiating with the label, and would allow him to extract another advance. In 1972, Polley negotiated a record contract with Warner Bros. Records for Badfinger, which called for advances to be paid into an escrow account. That you're taking all my money but I don't.") presciently predicted Badfinger's dealings with their shady manager, Stan Polley, that led its doomed lead singer/songwriter, Pete Ham, to write on his suicide note: "Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. [Laughs] But what was funny was, youd do a couple of takes of the tune, and then Phil would play you back a two-track mix with echoes on it and everything. based on information from your browser. I will take him with me.. The Beatles werent really hanging around or anything. On the morning of April 24, 1975, he was found to have . I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody, Ham wrote. Allen Klein swiftly renegotiated their EMI contract, obtaining them the highest royalties ever paid to an artist at the time. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. A year later, Badfinger was still living in Collins house with their wives and girlfriends, no more richer than they were prior to signing with Polley. Polley was a slick, charming operator whod served in the U.S. Army and worked in New Yorks garment industry, before entering the music business in the mid-60s. According to The New York Times, Polley was named during Senate-investigation hearings in 1971 as an intermediary between unnamed crime figures and a New York Supreme Court judge. I thought that was a good album. Maybe he heard what Harry eventually did, but we just werent that kind of band. He worked as an apprentice television engineer before finding fame, The band house in Golders Green, London, where Badfinger lived, Manager Bill Collins first spotted The Iveys playing in Ammanford and took them to London, Joey Molland described Swansea and Liverpool as similar working class ports with vibrant music scenes and said there was a "great connection" in the band, How newspapers reacted to the news that Pete Ham had hung himself in 1975, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. . Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). I feel as if things couldve turned out differently. Nothing. Polley was placed on probation for five years and ordered by the court to return all missing funds to Brock, although the complainant said the restitution never materialized. I feel as if things couldve turned out differently. EXCLUSIVE! The show helped boost the sales of the song which became the 9th most selling song on Amazon and streams on Spotify increased a whopping 9,000% after the finale aired. He was provided with unaudited accounts that said earnings had been eaten up by expensive US tours. His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. Todd Rundgren produced half the album, including Baby Blue. That outfit, which also included ex-Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, released a pair of underwhelming albums that attracted little attention. I will take him with me." Pete Ham almost escaped the 27 Club when he died on April 24, 1975; his 28th birthday was just three days away. Unable to get a hold of the bands manager, Warner filed a lawsuit against Badfinger Enterprises and Stan Polley over the missing funds. On this site which analyses celebrities, Stan is well known as one of the top stars. I wasnt involved in those things. But Polley was no ordinary showbiz sharpie. When Warner Music found 385,000 missing from another account, they sued Badfinger and Polley. Hed made his initial mark managing Lou Lightning Strikes Christie, and later oversaw the careers of such prominent figures as Al Kooper, veteran producer Hank Medress, Four Seasons arranger Charlie Calello, hit tunesmith Sandy Linzer and WABC radio disc jockey Bob Lewis. People say things like the saddest story in rock, and I guess they always will, says Molland, who at 72 continues to tour with a band he calls Joey Mollands Badfinger. It was in April 1975 that Ham hanged himself. The giant conglomerate Warner Bros. Records was interested. 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"It came from [a name for] John [Lennon] who could play piano but was not the greatest player," said Molland. I never went down to Apple to talk about titles. Ham, Evans, Molland and Gibbins all played on George Harrisons 1970 solo debut All Things Must Pass, while Ham and Evans provided backing vocals on Ringo Starrs 1971 hit It Dont Come Easy, and Evans and Molland performed on John Lennons album Imagine the same year. American businessman Stan Polley, who had taken over their affairs from original manager, Bill Collins, defrauded the band out of millions, leaving them all but broke. Multiple financial dealings by Polley were found to be irregular and to the detriment of his clients, scamming them and causing the acts to fall apart. The song reached the Top 10 in several European countries but, despite some BBC airplay and a promotional push in America, it stalled at Number 67 in the U.S. and failed to chart altogether in Britain. But I got a good sound out of the AC30. Throughout his career, Polley defrauded a number of clients and associates. Pete and Tommy had been warned when the band left Apple and signed to Warners to get rid of him. On the night of November 18, 1983, Evans had a heated phone argument with Molland about the Apple stalemate. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Being taken under the Beatles wing had the added benefit of allowing Badfinger to collaborate with their bigger-than-life labelmates. Despite a string of hits in the late-60s and early-70s, the members of Badfinger never reaped the financial rewards due to their manager Stan Polley, who allegedly had mob ties. Although the fallout from the Warner Bros. lawsuit led to his exit from the music industry, Polley apparently never lost his gift for larceny. Negative racial/anti-Semitic, or religious stereotypes are prohibited. The final episode of Breaking Bad, which had more than 10 million viewers tune in, closed out the episode with the Badfinger single Baby Blue. Gibbins recalled in an interview, Wed be doing a gig in Ireland, and hed be singing Mrs. I try to focus on the good things that we did and all the great songs we recorded. We knew it was a good song, and we enjoyed playing it. Biography [ edit] So I went down and met the band. Gary Thain (second from right) with Uriah Heep 12. He didnt really think about what he was going to say before he said it he just said it. Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 - July 20, 2009) was an entertainment manager from the 1960s and 1970s. Charles Kenneth Polley was born on month day 1915, at birth place, Illinois, to Edward L Polley and Anna May Polley (born Shinn). We wanted to be a better band, as good as we could be.. Asss Tom Evans-devised coverdepicting a jackass gazing longingly at a giant carrot off in the distanceoffered a grim omen of Badfingers future. "As the last one, I'm very aware of my responsibility to keep the music and band going," he said. In November 1968, Apple released the Iveys first single, the bittersweet Evans-penned ballad Maybe Tomorrow, lushly produced by Tony Visconti. But most of the citys musical talent would go unheard outside of Swansea, due to a lack of attention from the British music industry, which was centered in faraway London. Molland and Evans fronted two separate versions of the band as part of a contentious legal dispute. Mollands departure, and the fact that Wish You Were Here had been pulled from record-store shelves, didnt stop the band (which now included new keyboardist/guitarist Bob Jackson) from rushing into the studio in early 1975 to record yet another haphazardly-assembled album, Head First. It was obvious something was wrong. Pete Hams mood shifted from nave and hopeful to frantic, as Polley was now impossible to get hold of. "Pete had an affair with a roadie's wife, which caused a lot of not good feeling. He was 36. Did you know the band when they were the Iveys? In 1970, the infamous Stan Polley agreed to be their manager. He knew exactly what he wanted as far as rhythm guitar: all straight up-and-down strokes. THE KING OF FUH: BRUTE FORCE MEETS THE BEATLES, AND IN THE END: A LOOK AT THE LAST DAYS OF THE BEATLES. I got really good at rhythm guitar quite quickly, and then I started learning how to play lead. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Get the latest and greatest Guitar news with one of our guitar magazine subscriptions. He was very rude, actually, and we didnt like him. No jingle-jangle stuff. It is a story with its roots in Swansea and Liverpool involving The Beatles, a love song and a tragedy. Thats what I call him the crook. It was just blatant. I had a 63 Strat, and thats what he used. The band would release their seventh studio album, Wish You Were Here in late 1974 which received much critical acclaim, but was abruptly pulled from store shelves by Warner after the label discovered that their $250,000 advance payment to the bands management went missing. I heard my music on the radio, and I toured all over. It was around 1968 that Polley first formed a company called Five Arts Management, that included Christie, Kooper, Calello, Linzer and Lewis. The legal morass crippled Badfinger financially;[4] band leader Pete Ham died by suicide on April 24, 1975, leaving behind a note directly blaming Polley for his financial ruin. system for his fledgling combo. Most of Polley's American clients said they were already suspicious of their manager by this point, but the publicity of the hearings convinced several to sever ties with him. Edward was born on January 15 1872, in Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois, USA. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. In the mid-to-late 1960s, Badfinger (at the time known as the Iveys) became the first-ever band to be signed by Apple Studios after The Beatles (via Louder). He formed new companies to house future artists he secured, including composers Irwin Levine and Larry Brown. Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick started that album as producer. Answerbag wants to provide a service to people looking for answers and a good conversation. We all choose the songs. Sometimes I make money, sometimes I don't," he said. Pete had seen Evans perform with his band Them Calderstones, a Mod outfit that specialized in Motown and soul covers. We didnt record the basics at Abbey Road, but I went there to put on some slide guitar. I will take him with me". Tommy and Pete won the Ivor Novello Award for it. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Career [5] Bandmate Tom Evans died by suicide on November 19, 1983. "He was very anxious about it. Nearly 5000 downloads of the song were sold immediately after the shows broadcast, pushing the 40-year-old tune into iTunes Top 20. The situation weighed most heavily on Pete Ham. Year should not be greater than current year. Badfinger perform on Top Of The Pops, 1973. Sorry! Collins helped them to get a gig as backup band for pop singer David Garrick; that association lasted for a few months, until Garrick fired the Iveys when their opening sets began attracting a bit too much attention from audiences. It also inspired some fans, in the wake of the Beatles spring 1970 breakup, to speculate that Badfinger was actually the disbanded Fab Four secretly recording under a pseudonym. Badfinger continued its hot streak with 1971s Straight Up, whose production is credited to George Harrison, Todd Rundgren and Geoff Emerick. He went away and took the tapes; we never did overdubs or anything. Also in 1982, Evans, Gibbins and Bob Jackson somehow fell in with John Cass, a shadowy Milwaukee entrepreneur with minimal music-industry experience, who nonetheless promised to relaunch Badfingers career with a lucrative tour and a high-profile record deal. Impressed, Evans passed copies of the Iveys demo tape to John, Paul, George and Ringo, ultimately gaining all four Beatles approval to sign the band to Apple. If we had different management, we could have gone on. Soon after recording Come and Get It, the Iveys changed their name to Badfinger. By the time he joined Badfinger, Molland had accumulated a good deal of professional experience, having played with such acts as the Merseys, the Masterminds and Gary Walker & the Rain. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. I will take him with me." Lives & fortunes lost In his book, Mantovina discloses how Polley put Badfinger's money into a. I will take him with me." Mr Matovina will say: "It's a very hard business, full of shysters, huge egos and people more than willing to use others for . But he said: "Ron Griffiths [who he replaced] had joked in a magazine it hadn't done much good [being signed to The Beatles' label]. He even came in and asked us, Is it OK if I do a little slide on your record? He didnt just do it or demand it; he wanted to make sure it was what we wanted. Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 - July 20, 2009) was an American entertainment manager and fraudster active in the 1960s and 1970s. Without more biographical information and details about his other artist-clients, this page probably could be blanked. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. The strain had increasingly shown in his behavior, with friends seeing him put out cigarettes on his arms and hands. Nobody was the leader. In 2013, Baby Blue was prominently featured in the closing scene of the final episode of TVs Breaking Bad. Collins defended himself years later by saying 'I'm not legally minded As collateral damage of the dispute, the label withdrew Wish You Were Here from the market just seven weeks after it was released. The Warner Bros. contract called for the groups advances to be paid into an escrow account, but after the companys publishing division was unsuccessful in locating hundreds of thousands of dollars in advances that the company had deposited into the account, it filed a lawsuit against Polley. Ham had shown growing signs of mental illness over the past months, with Gibbins remembering Ham burning cigarettes on his hands and arms. His clients were mostly American artists, including Al Kooper and Lou Christie, but Polley is mostly known for his alleged mismanagement of the British band Badfinger. Failed to remove flower. In their absence, Badfingers music continues to touch the hearts of new generations of listeners. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. They were really nice, and they wanted to play some beat songs. There is a problem with your email/password. Prospective new managers and booking agents were leery of working with the band, due to the restrictive contracts that they had entered into with Polley, and the Warner lawsuit and the Apple publishing dispute that continued to hang over the bands heads. He made that very clear. Can you come down and play some guitar? So the car came and we went to Johns place; we went into the studio, and there was John. Sex tapes, shady business dealings, and homicides we'd all rather forget. In April 1970, manager Bill Collins was in the US scouting prospects for a tour and he met Stan Polley. Good riddance. 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