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Tony Stratton Smith (11 August 1933 – 19 March 1987) was an English rock music manager, and entrepreneur. He founded the London-based record label Charisma Records in 1969 and managed rock groups such as the Nice, Van der Graaf Generator and Genesis.
Jan 28, 2021 · The life of former Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator and The Nice manager and the man behind the legendary Charisma Records label, Tony Stratton-Smith, is to be celebrated in a new biography. Strat! The Charismatic Life And Times Of Tony Stratton Smith has been written by author Chris Groom and features a foreword from Peter Gabriel ...
May 6, 2016 · Tony Stratton-Smith was more like an old actor-manager such as Henry Irving in the way he looked after his acts and his label, Charisma, as opposed to what we think of as a classic rock manager like Don Arden or Peter Grant.
Jul 27, 2021 · Wymer Publishing. Out Now. The biography by Chris Groom tells an in-depth story of a bon vivant, passionate manager and impressive founder of Charisma Records. If one was challenged to compete with Tony Stratton-Smith in seeking out joie de vivre, he would be at great risk of failure.
Jul 24, 2022 · That aside from the chaos of his lifestyle, and the madness of his financial affairs – which, it would appear, stayed solvent almost entirely through the keen eye of his brilliant sidekick Gail Colson – Tony Stratton Smith was a wonderfully generous man.
Aug 20, 2021 · Stratton Smith, a journalist, author, band manager and record label founder, is described as “a quietly spoken, true English eccentric with something of a rebellious streak”. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1987 aged 53.
Jun 28, 2021 · Who was he? That’s the question with which Chris Groom wrestles in this biography of the man who founded, and somehow funded, Charisma Records, in the process discovering Genesis which made him a fortune. But Tony Stratton Smith remains elusive.
Strat’s Charisma, Tony Stratton Smith is interviewed by Chris Welch. Interview first published on the 23rd February 1974. Topics covered: Promotion, Concert Tours, Record deals, Artists, Charisma Records, Management of …
Originally a sports journalist, in 1958 he narrowly escaped losing his life in the Munich air disaster when he decided at the last minute to cover a world cup qualifying match (from that point on until his death in 1987 he would never board the flight that he was actually booked on).
A quietly spoken, true English eccentric with something of a rebellious streak, Tony Stratton Smith initially charmed and blustered his way into the music business as a manager during the early 1960s and a few years later, when the record labels stopped playing by what he believed to be the rules, he simply went and formed his own -The Famous ...
- Chris Groom
