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David Spero

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David Spero was a "rock-radio pioneer" in the 1970s and is a "high-profile" music manager and owner of the Cleveland office of Alliance Artists Ltd. [1]

57 relations: American Bandstand, Artists and repertoire, Avril Lavigne, Bill Szymczyk, Billy Bob Thornton, BoxOffice (magazine), Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia Pictures, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Dave Mason, Dick Clark, Dickey Betts, Disc jockey, Dolly Parton, Don Imus, Eagles (band), Epic Records, Film producer, Friends and Legends, Glenn Frey, Godsmack, Graham Nash, Harry Nilsson, Hell Freezes Over, Humble Pie, Independence, Ohio, Irving Azoff, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus Christ Superstar (film), Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Linkin Park, Michael Stanley, Ohio, Ordinary Average Guy, Paul McCartney, Raspberries (band), Roadsinger, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock Radio, Shaker Heights, Ohio, South Euclid, Ohio, Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat, Ted Neeley, The Edge of the World (Billy Bob Thornton album), The Funk Brothers, ..., The Hollies, Upbeat (TV series), WGAR-FM, WHLK, WMJI, WMMS, WNCX. Expand index (7 more) »

American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Avril Lavigne

Avril Ramona Lavigne (born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress.

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Bill Szymczyk

William Frank "Bill" Szymczyk (born February 13, 1943) is an American music producer and technical engineer best known for working with rock and blues musicians, most notably the Eagles in the 1970s.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician.

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BoxOffice (magazine)

BoxOffice is a film industry magazine dedicated to the movie theatre business published by BoxOffice Media LP.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a vocal folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

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Dave Mason

David Thomas "Dave" Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Dickey Betts

Forrest Richard Betts (born December 12, 1943) known as Dickey Betts, is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.

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Don Imus

John Donald Imus Jr. (born July 23, 1940) is a former American radio host and humorist.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Friends and Legends

Friends and Legends was the second solo album from Michael Stanley.

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Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, actor and founding member of the rock band the Eagles.

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Godsmack

Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995.

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Graham Nash

Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s.

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Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994.

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Humble Pie

Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Peter Frampton in Essex during 1969.

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Independence, Ohio

Independence is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Irving Azoff

Irving Azoff (born December 12, 1947) is an American entertainment executive and chairman of Full Stop Management, which represents recording artists such as the Eagles, Harry Styles, Christina Aguilera, The Go-Go's, Journey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Van Halen, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Steely Dan, Gwen Stefani, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, and entertainer Chelsea Handler.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

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Jesus Christ Superstar (film)

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name.

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Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.

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Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley (born March 25, 1948 as Michael Stanley Gee in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ordinary Average Guy

Ordinary Average Guy is the ninth solo studio album, and its title-track single (second on the playlist), by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Raspberries (band)

The Raspberries were an American pop rock band formed in 1970 from Cleveland, Ohio.

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Roadsinger

Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night) is the thirteenth studio album by Yusuf (formerly known as Yusuf Islam and as Cat Stevens).

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rock Radio

Rock Radio was a brand of radio stations in the United Kingdom owned by GMG Radio.

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Shaker Heights, Ohio

Shaker Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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South Euclid, Ohio

South Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Tea for the Tillerman

Tea for the Tillerman is the fourth studio album by the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens.

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Teaser and the Firecat

Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album by Cat Stevens, released in 1971.

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Ted Neeley

Teddie Joe "Ted" Neeley (born September 20, 1943) is an American rock and roll drummer, singer, actor, composer, and record producer.

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The Edge of the World (Billy Bob Thornton album)

The Edge of the World is the second album by American actor and singer/songwriter Billy Bob Thornton.

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The Funk Brothers

The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style.

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Upbeat (TV series)

Upbeat was a syndicated musical variety show produced in Cleveland, Ohio at ABC affiliate WEWS-TV 5 that aired from 1964 to 1971 (the last five years airing nationally in first run syndication).

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WGAR-FM

WGAR-FM (99.5 FM) – branded 99.5 WGAR – is a commercial country music radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio owned by iHeartMedia, Inc..

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WHLK

WHLK (106.5 FM) – branded 106.5 The Lake – is a commercial adult hits radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio.

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WMJI

WMJI (105.7 FM) – branded Majic 105.7 – is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio.

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WMMS

WMMS (100.7 FM) – branded 100.7 WMMS: The Buzzard – is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio.

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WNCX

WNCX (98.5 FM) – branded 98.5 WNCX – is a commercial classic rock radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spero

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