Richard Bentine, the son of Michael Bentine, one of the original Goons, employed Rigelsford for a few months doing research for his company, Classic Comedy Group. Faking an interview with Stanley showed some imagination, but not much. Rigelsford's co-writer on the project, Kim Lamont? Anyone who has worked in the film industry will instantly recognise the type. It was at the end that Stanley told the packed crowd, We want to thank you for a great 13 years. An amiable Londoner with a youthful voice that belies his 57 years, he said Rigelsford first turned up at the picture library when he was working on a book by Brian Blessed some 12 years ago. The recording of Tough Room was finally completed in mid-February, with Szymczyk picking up the master CD on Feb. 24. What did this suggest? However, he isnt ready to roll the credits on his career just yet. Shortly thereafter, in 2000, he began seeing Denise Skinner, a former marketing staffer living in LA whom he got to know while MSB was signed to the label EMI. He said, I dont want to see anybody. I said, Im not anybody, Im me. They hung out for three hours and listened to what they had done. But who speaks for him? Stanley's family . In 1980, they released Heartland, which yielded the sunnily upbeat Top 40 hit, He Cant Love You.. The album was produced by Michael Stanley featuring members of The Resonators and mixed by longtime friend and executive producer Bill Szymczyk. I dont think he wanted to say that in this album., Recorded in the dog days of the pandemic, the new record boasts a communal sound attributed to collaboration from other Cleveland musicians. Sites: linelevelmusic.com, Wikipedia, imdb.com, imdb.com Aliases: Gotta another good night, no rain, Stanley said, surveying the sold-out crowd, which stretched as far as you could see. It didn't initially startle me. His upcoming birthday was going to be bittersweet for the family. Here and there one saw a Quiet Riot or Triumph T-shirt.. I could not prove it was a fraud. ", "Well, I think it's a fake. Michael Stanley and Mike Belkin backstage at Blossom Music Center on Aug. 23, 1981. That brings a certain safety, a certain comfort. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. When we played it the once, I thought, Oh, Im gonna be listening to this one a lot. I hope hes proud of it. Dont forget about us. For many music fans in Northeast Ohio, his passing stirred up fond memories of their youth, when they paid $12 to see one of his many sold-out shows at Blossom or camped out outside the Coliseum for tickets to watch him perform on New Years Eve-- complete with indoor fireworks, of course. The Michael Stanley Band appeared at the World Series of Rock at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1975, playing the same stage as Yes, Joe Walsh and Ace. Its very much the work of an adult rock n roller, one who no longer needed blazing tempos or metallic tones to make his point but instead invested in textured, tonal arrangements that, throughout, spotlight lead guitarist Danny Powers and backing signer Jennifer Lee (with longtime running mate Tommy Dobeck on drums). Heres a look back at five of Stanleys most memorable shows. Sheppard sees him now as a Walter Mitty character: if he wishes it to be true, it is true. His music was played throughout, with a display set up inside the Rock Hall, with artifacts from his career. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. September 1 means Aquino died 3 weeks after going on Leppo's show with Thomas Schoenberger, the All Seeing Ewe and Frank Bacon. Andy Stanley on Why He Quit Saying 'The Bible Says' While Still Loving He was in the news for a "tasty bit of thievery". We came up in pretty straight-ahead suburban households with that kind of expectation: You grow up, you go to college, youre able to get a job, you get married, you have kids, he explains. There were postings in the Dr Who user groups dating from the early and mid-1990s following the publication of a couple of his books. He'd written an episode of Dr Who, The Roof Of The World, and an episode of a science fiction TV series called Space Island One. Some of it sounded like Stanley, but if indeed this was Stanley, he was firing on a single cylinder. The album, Stanleys first posthumous record, is out six weeks after the 72-year-olds death on March 5. I thought, This is just a great gig! We have a Michael Stanley.. Six months after MSB broke up, he had begun playing live with a group of musicians billed as Michael Stanley and Friends. CBS Evening News - Interviews - CBS News It was the annual hang, and the hang was more important than making music, to be honest, Szymczyk said. [C]lustered around the stage were some heavy metal types in plaid shirts, headbands and Harley Davidson hats. I hope its a way to process their grief., Michael Stanley, Joe Walsh & Bill Szymczyk (Photo: Lisi Szymczyk; used with permission), There was an urgency. Every so often I'd glance at the interview. They talked to Michael Belkin, Jennifer Lee, David Spero, and more, who all share their stories and experiences of working with, and knowing, Michael Stanley. Legendary Cleveland rocker Michael Stanley dies at 72 - WKYC 2023 Audacy, Inc. All rights reserved. Even with the production of Tough Room coming in the last days of Stanleys life, the liner notes he wrote make no mention of disease or death, instead it includes a dedication to his late manager, Mike Belkin Sr. Shooting was scheduled to begin on June 30, 2003. Interviews Michael Stanley 98.5 WNCX Latest Interviews With Michael Belkin, Jennifer Lee, And More Stories, experiences, and more from Michael's friends and colleagues. Rick Bell soared out with his horn, the band followed and Stanley sang Workin Again, my favorite of all his tracks. As Stanley was rebuilding his professional life, his personal one was falling apart. By Anthony Elder, The band headlines the Cleveland winter festival for the second time in eight years. Michael Scott left after seven seasons, but he made a surprise return on the series finale. If there is a God, He was awake and paying attention, Glanzberg says. Its even earning the musician recognition. I dont think we were threatening, he says. Why, if the interview was conducted at the beginning of 1997, did the interviewers wait more than two-and-a-half years to publish it - until six months after Stanley's death? Did I say that? Were they big names? (Passing Tones) was the last one he sent me, and I think that probably is the only one where hes coming to grips with what reality is, Szymczyk notes. Bill Szymczyk on the making of Joe Walshs. I think half the guys in our band ripped the card up immediately. Another Top 40 hit came in 1983 thanks to My Town, off the album You Cant Fight Fashion. Source: Aquino official web site xeper.org. Through it all, he managed to continue working and maintain a positive attitude. Then Rigelsford claimed something had happened to the tape. As a happily single woman who had raised a son alone, she wasnt looking for a man or a commitment. There were those that would say my original marriage lasted as long as it did because I was on the road for half of it, he half-jokes. He does concede that, after writing some 400 songs, crafting a lyric has become more challenging. The two continued their friendship, exchanging paper-and-pen letters and visiting one another. Despite Stanley saying he was no longer able to distinguish between a good song and a bad song, Szymczyk drove to Stanleys home to play him the master CD. He inhabited that undergrowth of showbiz literature where fandom and cultists hang out. Michael Stanley poses for a photo on June 2, 2000, in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a great conversation and really one of the best interviews I've ever done, because he's always so easy to talk to.In fact, that was one of the many things we talked about, along with MSB holding record sellouts at both Blossom and the now long-defunct Richfield Coliseum, the run of shows at the (also) long-defunct Front Row Theatre, his long recording career, the many great musicians he's played with over the years, meeting John Lennon and the 'perils' of recording Beatle songs, being a television correspondent, MSB's popularity around the country, the recording industry, Michael's accessibility to the public and how much he likes talking to his fans and a whole lot of other things.I've always enjoyed talking with Michael, and this occasion was no different. And one other thing. The photo he chose for the cover was snapped by his wife Ilsa Glanzberg during a pre-pandemic visit to The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles. Im in fucking classic rock heaven.. The sold-out show was dubbed Stagepass Revisted as the group performed songs from the Michael Stanley Bands 1977 live album Stagepass. But it ended with a three-song encore of his biggest hits -- Lover, He Cant Love You and My Town -- which instantly made everybody in the crowd feel like they were a teenager again. Adrian, for no good reason, I've always felt was a bit of a poser's name. I could only suggest it was. All rights reserved (About Us). All that remained were the rent arrears. Behind The Recording Of Michael Stanley's Final Album "Tough Room," Out The two had gotten to know each other during Stanley and Skinners courtship and marriage. Genower contacted Rigelsford and an appointment was made. I don't think it happened. Michael Scott went from an annoying, inappropriate boss, to a fulfilled husband and father on the NBC show. Also other data will not be shared with third person. At least once or twice a month [after her death], we would talk, Glanzberg adds. You Can't Fight Fashion is the final major-label album by the rock band Michael Stanley Band.The album was the band's highest charting album reaching #64 on the Billboard Magazine Top 200 in late 1983 and staying there for almost three weeks. Fans can expect his show after the awards ceremony to be full of hits the 1980 ballad Lover, the 1983 anthemic My Town and the 2008 rocker Just Another Night in America, to name a few. Sary, meanwhile, says its the first time her father, unusually, did not give she or her sister a copy of the album in advance. A fan inquires what else Rigelsford has written aside from the Dr Who books? I've heard most of them. Production on the album slowed down as well, as the subsequent effects of pain medication combined with the brain fog caused by his chemotherapy treatments made working a struggle. Those characteristics appeal to an audience who grew up listening to his songs not only here in the Rust Belt, but beyond the heartland. Read Full Biography Overview Biography Discography Songs Credits Related Song Highlights Highlights All Songs AllMusic Quiz I hadnt realized that a song is a song, and anybody can do it., He produced two solo albums, 1972s Michael Stanley, featuring a country-flavored cocktail of feel-good music and drown-my-sorrows track Rosewood Bitters, and 1973s Friends & Legends, which yielded the music-biz lament Lets Get the Show on the Road., Despite the early studio successes, Stanley still considered pursuing a musical career the equivalent of, Im going to work at the carny for a couple of years.. He asked if Stanley had ever thought about going on the air again. I think the fact he has one final album is such a gift for everybody, especially the fans., Weighing in a 15 tracks and 77 minutes, recorded primarily at Stanleys home studio in Cleveland, Tough Room is nothing less than quintessential Stanley, blending a singer-songwriters earnest assessments of life and society with wry humor -- complete with historical references (10th century French Queen consort Eleanor of Aquaitaine, Anton Chekov), and in the case of the chugging rocker Im Pissed, a bona fide anthem for that guy who screams Get off my lawn!. "Michael Stanley is dealing with serious health issues that prevent him from joining you in his 3-7 p.m. time slot," the station's Facebook statement explained. Hes a good writer, Szymczyk said, simply. He was? Both as a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band (MSB), his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland, Ohio, and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. Sounds like a character from a British comedy film of the 1950s played, perhaps, by the surly and camp Harold Lang (you'd recognise him all right). The longtime Cleveland rockers March 5 death, at the age of 72 from lung cancer, continues to reverberate around his hometown -- including the Michael Stanley Day celebration on March 25, his birthday, and a moment of silence at the Indians home opener. Im going, Thats Skinner! Your e-mail address will not be published. Morgan Stanley interview (41 real questions, process, and prep) We felt that that was a really important message.. Stanley Kubrick, my boss, died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in Hertfordshire in March 1999 after completing the editing on what was his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. And as for Meffen, what was this? Here's why they have little faith in the market's best start to a year since 2019 17 George Glover. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. They then headed to Miami at the end of the year to record You Break It You Bought It!, a mix of rockers and ballads. The woman who answered the entry-phone had never heard of her. Many of the songs have some history. I suppose, in retrospect, its easy to say that I didnt handle it all that well.. I didnt realize how far his reach was, said Anna Sary, Stanleys daughter. A: Probably that I wear a parachute under my coat at all times (he laughs). But he knew there never would be time for that. The buzz at court was that his barrister had urged him to plead guilty, but he wouldn't listen. Then there were the lengthy magazine pieces, an interview with an actor or a film director, say, and it was only 2,000 words into the thing that Stanley was mentioned, once, in passing. He was born in a Cambridge hospital but the address of his parents was in Brampton, on the same modern estate where he was arrested. Once he landed a record deal with the Tree Stumps, who changed their name to Silk and released a 1969 album, Stanley branched out on his own, influenced by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. But, who knows, perhaps Stanley had done this as a special favour? Once you get a bunch of songs together, its like, Well, thats all well and good. His songs reflect his life love, loss and uncertainty and resonate with many. Then there was a book on the Hannibal Lecter movie. Stanley and McCrone divorced after eight years of marriage. Bentine thought that this would all end in tears, and he was right - the film collapsed. And I gotta see you. He fought me on that. However, I can hear his voice now saying, "Gee! The group began to reach a national audience with the release of He Cant Love You, which became the bands highest-charting single ever and was even played on American Bandstand. It was also the year MSB started what became a four-year tradition of playing sold-out shows at the Coliseum on New Years Eve or New Years Day, sometimes both. I didn't know what to say. This just doesn't read right. He subsequently retrieved some 21,000 pictures. But, a precocious talent, eh? I thought there might be a reason for it. This time, she notes. She had gone. Interview with Michael Stanley 21 June 1991 - YouTube They married during a 2002 trip to Las Vegas in an impromptu ceremony at the Graceland Wedding Chapel. In 1990, he and Libby divorced. How rewarding, then, to find a piece with Stanley mentioned in the title! (Photo: Janet Macoska), Stanley, says Szymczyk, had been working on Tough Room for several years, since his Stolen Time album in 2017. But at the same time, what are you losing by doing that?. There were articles, but there was clutter, too. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country, Szymczyk mixed the album from his North Carolina studio as opposed to Stanleys basement to protect Stanleys compromised immune system. He was described as "one of Britain's foremost experts on Dr Who" (loud laughter from the chat rooms) and it was said he had appeared in two James Bond films (he had claimed this elsewhere, but his name appears on no cast list - if he was in them it was as an extra). There were others: "Use a ouija board or ask AR." Genower had a showdown with him and realised he and the magazine had been conned. All of the funds raised and donated will go to a variety of Northeast Ohio organizations in need. In June 2017 Stanley married Denise Skinners best friend, Ilsa Glanzberg, an instructional aide at a Venice, California, elementary school, before approximately 75 guests in a sunset ceremony on the roof of a friends house on Venice Beach. They all had to be read. But a physical altercation with the program director who replaced Travagliante after his sudden departure for Columbia Records ended Stanleys tenure before it really began. "Yes, but have you heard the tape recording?" Rigelsford would arrive at meetings declaring things like Jennifer Aniston's agent had phoned him last night saying his client was looking for projects. I would come in at weekends and steadily work my way through them. The Cleveland musician, who ruled the local airwaves in the late 1970s and early 1980s died Friday after a seven-month battle with lung cancer, his . By nature, hes just a true poet. We talked with Chief Stanley and the person who nominated him. For example, if the Bolsover Advertiser mentioned a re-run of The Shining in its TV listings, we got a clipping. Photo: Christiane Kubrick/PA. But its also an indication that Ive been doing this for a very long time. Photo: 98.5 WNCX/Facebook. In June 2004 Rigelsford was jailed for 18 months. He said, I got a bunch of songs. We arent going to forget about you., Michael Stanley's performed his final concert on March 7, 2020 at the Akron Civic Theatre. I wasnt looking for another ride on the love-mobile, he says. The bridge -- Such a sad situation/a millimeter of skin/Can change your reservation/Where somebody loses again and again -- just kills me., Michael Stanley and Mike Belkin backstage at Blossom Music Center on Aug. 23, 1981. I felt fine until the very last, leader/singer Stanley said backstage after the three-hour Front Row show. She felt she could get some much-needed closure to Skinners death by seeing the house, her garden and friends again. Though Stanley tried to keep a release schedule of every 18 months or so, according to the engineer, this interim was marked by open heart surgery as well as a flood in his basement studio. He also performed at the ceremony. Stanley, who died March 5 of lung cancer, dedicated his final album, "Tough Room" to Belkin, his longtime. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Growing up in Cleveland in the 1980s, Michael Stanley was the biggest rock star on the planet as far as I knew. Michael Stanley's health is keeping him off-air for the time being. Michael Stanley doesnt tell this story to many people. [Denise and I] had 10 wonderful years, he says. Elsewhere, there were question marks hanging over supposedly "last" interviews in the Carry On book. Jethro Tulls Thick As a Brick: Concept LP or Parody of One? After Stanley's death the volume of clippings doubled, and tripled, then quadrupled. Sounds like a character from a British comedy film of the 1950s played, perhaps, by the surly and camp Harold Lang (you'd recognise him all right). Faking an interview with Stanley Kubrick and ripping off a picture library. I wasn't aware of them interviewing Stanley, but then I wasn't on set all the time and not everything passed through my office. Michael Stanley, Cleveland's hometown rock hero, dies at 72 It was the fucking worst., The resulting tracks for Tough Room have a timeless feel well-written, smart lyrics, strong melodies. The launch of our first fund-related merchandise was a huge success! When production started back up again, Powers began driving to Stanleys suburban East Side home two or three times a week to lay down his rhythm-guitar parts and guitar solos, with Stanley serving as the recording engineer. Had Stanley really been interviewed on set? Steve Carell played Michael Scott on "The Office." NBC There was a tremendous sense of community that was what was so cool about it, he says. In May 2003 Rigelsford appeared in court accused of stealing 56,000 photographs over an eight-year period from the Daily Mail/Associated Newspapers picture library in Kensington after being arrested at his then home in Brampton, a small village west of Huntingdon. The interview was tape recorded. This is Aquino's own web site xeper.org. The story made most of the national papers and popped up on the BBC News website, complete with a photo of Rigelsford, with beard and glasses, looking like an ageing cherub. Cleveland rocker Stanley has died at age 72 after battling lung cancer. After the band broke up, WJW offered him a position as a feature reporter on its locally produced edition of the syndicated PM Magazine. Three years later he released his first solo album in over two decades, Coming Up for Air. 2023 Audacy, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. By early to mid-2014, she felt the same way about him. But here I was, finally, interviewing Michael Jordan, and right from the start he was giving and generous and looked like he was happy to be there. In fact, we got a clipping from every newspaper that noted the re-run. Who were they? CLEVELAND, Ohio - Michael Stanleys daughter Anna Sary intended to wait for an actual release date to listen to Tough Room, her late fathers final album. Kim Meffen. Funny name, eh? Rocker Michael Stanley Recorded a Final Album: The Inside Story The station had no need for promotional copies of anything that didnt fit its format. Everybody from me on down to the last guy on the road crew was invested in the thing. I'd phone a couple of people. It was so important to him to get this last album done. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. You can check them all out here. In the Dec. 18 issue of The Plain Dealer, Jane Scott wrote the first of those shows was a little bittersweet, but it wasnt sentimental. In the summer of 1982, the Michael Stanley Band broke the Blossom attendance record it set the year before by selling out four nights on August 25-26 and Aug. 30-31. What? He then made the trip from his North Carolina studio to play the finished tracks for Stanley one last time. But, more interestingly, many writers were questioning whether some of the numerous interviews he claimed to have conducted and printed ever really took place, and this was some five or six years before the Kubrick interview. He passed away March 5th, 2021 after a battle with lung cancer. She asked for a do-over while preparing a Sunday breakfast in his kitchen. He performed with his bands Michael Stanley Band and The Resonators (2) . ", Another long silence followed by, "The interview was tape recorded.". Then-program director and afternoon drive-time disc jockey Kid Leo Travagliante subsequently hired him to take over the midday shift. Stanleys drummer, Tommy Dobeck, singer Jennifer Lee and guitarist Danny Powers were in Cleveland, with Bob Pelanders keyboards recorded in Las Vegas. Rigelsford claimed, among other things, to be paying off Kim's father's debts. Did Rigelsford and Meffen really think they would get away with it? Then I heard myself, observed myself, saying something to Genower. The two in turn recruited three other musicians. The quartet, billed as the Michael Stanley Band, because they simply couldnt agree on a more original name, performed for the first time at the Agora Theatre on Sept. 2, 1974. It startled me when I was reading the next clipping. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. This was, indeed, the elusive Kim Meffen. He was born March 25, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her name? Funny name, eh? Nothing ever came of it for 99.9 percent of the people. Ive already heard everything, he told Szymczyk. His "definitive" book on Dr Who managed to leave out a whole series. "There wasn't much he didn't know." Collaborating with Community Organizers for Social Justice: An These were too important merely to box, so I decided to file them in date order in Swedex four-prong binders (always a favourite with Stanley: "Those Swedes sure know how to make a functional, sexy binder!"). He just gave me a gift that I never expected., Stanley shares the sentiment. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Telegraph magazine - STANLEY TUCCI Cover & Interview (16 January 2021) at the best online prices at eBay! Styx / Michael Stanley Band Aug 19, 1978 South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States Uploaded by Rudy Childs Styx / Michael Stanley Band Aug 19, 1978 South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States Uploaded by Rudy Childs Styx / Michael Stanley Band Aug 19, 1978 South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States Uploaded by Rudy Childs This was Blossom Music Centers most popular artist, Michael Stanley, in a rare acoustic set last night.. Plain Dealer music critic Anastasia Pantsios wrote about that first New Yers Eve concert in a review that appeared in the Jan. 2, 1981 edition. But the work continued, and during the early fall Szymczyk received a call. Its amazing how much it was recognized nationally. While Rigelsford stoutly denied "stealing" the photographs, he admitted selling them on. Or you could go to New York (deafening boos)., We can make this a better city. It was unlikely. And, anyway, when did Pinewood ever have a "script pool"? At 71-years-old, Stanley doesnt know how much longer he can keep being the Michael Stanley weve known onstage for the last 50 years. Men outnumbered teenage girls for the first time. This full-page ad appeared in The Plain Dealer on November 27, 1980. There were obituaries, memorials, recollections, assessments and so on. Michael Stanley - Line Level Music He received a call late that same night ordering him into the co-host seat to help provide live coverage of the event. Could it be that the fake Kubrick interview was not the first time that Rigelsford had exercised his imagination? He always was a poet at heart. But the bands record label only offered a six-month extension on their expiring record contract instead of another long-term deal. With very little face-to-face interaction in his last days, Stanley wrote letters to the important people in his life and mailed them out a week before his death. 1:47. As they were playing their final gig at Ottos Grotto, a hot spot in the basement of the Statler Hotel building on Euclid Avenue, a producer for ABC Records approached them during a break. He really felt strongly that he did not want to say any formal goodbyes to his loved ones, Sary says. We were big in San Francisco, but we didnt do much in LA. He was surprised to read about the court case, but not that surprised. I hope you enjoy our conversation too. Stanley was presented the Cleveland Arts Prizes Lifetime Achievement Award that night. Had Rigelsford gained confidence from similar earlier ventures? There were dozens and dozens of them on the industrial shelving that lined his offices and store rooms. Listen to the Michael Stanley Band hit In the Heartland. Everybody in my junior high class wore Michael Stanley Band T-shirts and talked about seeing him in concert. Mark Brown's misguided youth and decision to buy music instead of food in college led to a life covering the music industry.
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