{"id":487324,"date":"2019-06-22T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851488"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:26:04","slug":"neil-young-remembers-elliot-roberts-greatest-manager-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/neil-young-remembers-elliot-roberts-greatest-manager-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Remembers Elliot Roberts: \u2018Greatest Manager of All Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Young<\/a> remembered his longtime manager Elliot Roberts, \u201cthe greatest manager of all time\u201d and \u201cmy friend for over 50 years,\u201d in a tribute the rocker penned on his Neil Young Archives site<\/a>. Roberts, who also managed artists like Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, died<\/a> Friday at the age of 76.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever one to think of himself, he puts everyone else first. That\u2019s what he did for me for over fifty years of friendship, love and laughter, managing my life, protecting our art in the business of music. That\u2019s what he did,\u201d Young wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it came to our business, Elliot guided me through every move. We talked every day. Often I would call him multiple times in a day, arguing, discussing, planning and sharing. He was there for me and protected my music with a fierceness. He loved music and managed over the years many greats: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, David Blue, Tracy Chapman, Tegan and Sara, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Tom Petty, the Eagles, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n

After working alongside David Geffen at William Morris Agency, Roberts established his Lookout Management in the Sixties after hearing a tape of Joni Mitchell. Roberts, then only 23, began managing Young in 1969 and, soon after, Crosby, Stills & Nash. Roberts\u2019 working relationship with Young spanned 50 years, from the breakup of Buffalo Springfield to his death Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I tend to avoid the confrontations and delivering bad news, I am not good at doing any of that,\u201d Young wrote in his first memoir, Waging Heavy Peace<\/em>. \u201cElliot is. He knows how to communicate where I don\u2019t \u2026 Just as I wake up every day with a new idea, he wakes up every day with a new approach to solving the problems that arise with the projects I am already immersed in. There are a lot of them. This is our pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the words in the world could not express my love and thanks to Elliot Rabinowitz and his family, who adored him. He was there for all of us,\u201d Young continued on the Neil Young Archives Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cElliot love making deals for all of us, saving our publishing rights, ensuring we were treated well, helping book our concerts, as well as booking the Bridge Concert with Marsha Vlasic from the very beginning for over 30 years. He made it happen. This world is forever changed for me, for all who knew him and loved him. His memory shines with love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s CSNY band mates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash also previously paid tribute<\/a> to Roberts following his death Friday.<\/p>\n

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Neil Young remembered his longtime manager Elliot Roberts, \u201cthe greatest manager of all time\u201d and \u201cmy friend for over 50 years,\u201d in a tribute the rocker penned on his Neil Young Archives site. Roberts, who also managed artists like Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, died Friday at the age of 76. \u201cNever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:21:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}