Who is p f sloan

The label told me to sign away everything I'll ever earn and earned and sent out word that I was persona non grata. They wanted to destroy me and this kind of music.

They thought Bob Dylan was an idiot and a communist. Around '72, I literally collapsed inwardly and physically. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, a blood illness that zaps you of all your energy.

I was depressed. Nobody knew what to do. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. He knew I would hear of any influence in there that would be deemed Red.

It was art. He seemed greatly relieved and offered me the song of my choice to cover. GM: Then Crosby showed up that very day you were hanging out with Dylan and picked a fight with you? PFS: Crosby and I never got along. When they showed up in full hippie regalia, they freaked everyone out.

No one had ever seen anything like it. I think he considered me to be a fake. I was a guy who wrote surfing songs; what was I doing writing serious folk music?

They changed that law soon after my song. But getting back to Crosby, he was a much more alpha male than I was. Brandishing a knife and threatening to kill you? I was in on the meetings with him and Lou Adler when they planned Monterey Pop. We wanted to invite The Beatles, and they wanted to come. But then Lennon found out that Phillips pulled a knife on me through their publicist, Derek Taylor. Lennon was told the fest was all about love and peace, but when he realized it was only all about Phillips and money, money, money, he convinced the rest of the band to pass.

GM: Another Beatle story in the book is that you were also right there on the street corner in Haight Ashbury when George Harrison showed up.

Funny thing about that is it was the start of those hippies becoming more like zombies on drugs, and George had no idea.

He thought they were fans rushing toward him. We beckoned him back into his limo. The American government had introduced a very dangerous drug into that neighborhood to thwart the scene and had turned all these wonderfully sweet people into zombies. It was, streetwise, common knowledge. The government was simply not going to stand for this love generation. It was stamped out within a year. GM: You say Lasker and Adler prevented you from becoming a huge star at every turn.

Finally, Lasker shows his mobster side by threatening you with pictures of corpses. PFS: He was a megalomaniac. But he did that with a lot of people. He wanted power. He wanted me to kiss his shoes. He made millions on The Beatles. GM: How?

But I knew they were more. The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I first heard them. I immediately went to Lou Adler, who thought they were garbage. Hell, I was 16! Why should they? But when you look at what Dunhill Records could have had? I brought them Buffalo Springfield. Lou Adler turned them down. GM: So you reach New York, hook up with a junkie girl who puts a monkey on your back. You lose your voice at a Bottom Line gig and Elvis, long after he dies, helps you and sings through your body — this after you had met him at a music store at the age of 12 and he gave you an impromptu music lesson.

PFS: He was a divine being. No one fully understands this. We understand the hormonal and vocal impact only. I prayed in my dressing room for help that night, because I knew my voice was shot. GM: I must admit, you meeting James Dean three years after he died is rather hard to believe. PF Sloan, who has died at the age of 70 after contracting pancreatic cancer, was the kind of figure the early days of rock music threw up with high frequency, when young minds were being warped by the ferment of change being pumped out across the airwaves.

Though a New Yorker by birth, his family moved to West Hollywood in The following year he got his first guitar and was immediately given a lesson in how to play it from Elvis Presley, who happened to be in the music store. Who better to write for teenagers than an actual teenager? We put so much reverb on it that it brought the guitar to life. Pun for the learn-ed only. But, for now, enjoy these tunes.

The only stipulation was that Most was returning to England the next day and needed it before he left. Sloan immediately sat down with a guitar belonging to Donovan performing that night and also managed and produced by Most and wrote the song. Though the name of the movie was changed to Hold On!