Former bass player with the Animals - "We were thrashing around the world, doing an incredible number of gigs - I believe in 1966, the year we split, we still played over 200 concerts - then we'd go home, to the bank: oop, nothing there!" - he started a career as a manager, by picking up Jimi Hendrix from a New York club and finding a drummer and a bass player to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience.