Robert Stigwood died Monday at age 81. He was best known for taking some little known Australian teenage trio called the Bee Gees (above, with their sibling Andy) and turning them into megastars through his management, and he also developed the careers of Cream and that group 's member Eric Clapton. His Robert Stigwood Organization company's dorky cow/hippo/whatever logo was ubiquitous in the 1970s and early 1980s, plastering the screen in the credits of multi-million film successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease, as well as Tommy and Staying Alive, and his label not only did well with those soundtracks, but also the Fame movie score and releases by Bee Gees, Clapton, and Yvonne Elliman. In honor, here's a pretty neat alternate version of the Bee Gees' first international hit, 1967's "New York Mining Disaster 1941."
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