Dee Anthony
April 9, 1926 – October 25, 2009
Dee Anthony was a legendary artist manager who helped develop the young careers of such artists as Traffic, J. Geils Band, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, Devo and Peter Allen. His career started in the mid ’40s when he began representing his friend, Jerry Vale. In 1954, he picked up Tony Bennett who he managed for over ten years. During the ’70s, he managed Humble Pie, and when Peter Frampton went solo, it was Anthony that helped guide him through the massive success of his Frampton Comes Alive era. Anthony retired from the music business during the ’90s. He was 83 when he died of pneumonia on October 25, 2009.