associated_acts death_date death_place years_active birth_place label background birth_date genre article_title name occupation
dick blue buzzy linhart buddy miles express , smile rod stewart cambell , caetano veloso , three man army , the who , , wishful thinking dave morgan , rick wakeman big jim sullivan the eyes of 26 june 1977 -lrb- aged 43 -rrb- london , england 1965 -- 1977 chicago , illinois mercury records non_performing_personnel 1934 pop , rock , hard rock , symphonic rock lou reizner
 lou reizner record producer a & r executive film score composer
lou reizner

lou reizner -lrb- born chicago 1934 , died london 26 june 1977 -rrb- was a record producer , a&r executive and head of mercury records european operations .
as a producer , he is perhaps best known for rod stewart 's first two solo albums , for the orchestral version of the who 's rock opera tommy , and rick wakeman 's `` journey to the centre of the earth '' .
as an a&r executive , he signed van der graaf generator and arranged a us deal for david bowie .
he had one child , claudia collingbourne .
