Marmalade Drummer, Alan Whitehead was artistic from an early age, he bought his first drum kit when he was sixteen. After playing with various bands, he joined Marmalade. Success followed with worldwide hits such as the cover version of the Paul McCartney song, 'Ob-La-De-Ob-La-Da'. In 1969, Marmalade were signed to Decca Records and their next song "Reflections of My Life" became a Worldwide hit. .... See more ....
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By 1978 Alan left the band to work in Management and Record Production. Using his skills in photography to package the artists he worked with ..... including re-imaging and recording. He set up his own management company, negotiating his first production contract with EMI Records. Groups that he successfully managed were Lipps Inc., Mel and Kim, Modern Romance and Rikki Peebles. He later went on to manage all girl groups Amazulu and Belle Stars.
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Returning to England from the States. He set up the first-ever Table Dancing Club in Acton called "For Your Eyes Only".. he went on to set up a further 20 of these clubs in England and abroad, supplying dancers for all of them.
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Author Alan has written two books on the teachings of Lao Tzu. 'Don't shoot the messenger' Book One and 'Don't shoot the messenger' Book Two
Signed and dedicated paperback versions of both books are available and both books are available in Kindle format from Amazon. See more ....
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He is credited as Executive Producer on the forthcoming film "The Loss Adjuster" were he also has a few cameo scenes.
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| Alan's latest adventure in Artist Management is, the always amazing Mandy Gaffney. At present Mandy is recording with Manchester band 'Superphone' ..... See more .... |
