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Peter Grant

This article is about the British music manager. For the evolutionary biologists at Princeton University, please see Peter and Rosemary Grant.

Peter Grant (5 April 1935 - 21 November 1995) was an English music manager. Grant managed the popular English bands the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, amongst others, and was also a record executive for Swan Song Records. Grant has been described as one of the shrewdest managers in rock history. He is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for musicians in dealings with concert promoters.^[1]

Early life

Grant was born in the south London suburb of South Norwood, Surrey, England. His mother Dorothy worked as a secretary. He attended Sir Walter St John School in Grayshott before the Second World War, and completed schooling at Charterhouse School in Godalming after the evacuation.^[2] After the war Grant returned to Norwood until leaving at the age of 13, when he became a sheet metal factory worker in Croydon. He left that job after a few weeks and obtained employment on Fleet

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Peter Grant (singer)

English singer

Peter Grant (born 1987 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is an English singer of easy listening and jazz music.

Life and career

Peter Grant began singing at the age of six and played at working men's clubs from the age of 12. He grew up in Guiseley, north-west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, and was a pupil at Guiseley High School.

His first album New Vintage was released in April 2006, and entered at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart, largely thanks to his chat show appearances with Michael Parkinson, Davina McCall and GMTV, where he made his TV debut.

His second album Traditional was released on 17 September 2007.

He can also be heard singing "Happy Together" on a Twix advertisement, a cover of the Turtles song. He released his download-only single "Traditional" on 10 September 2007.

Promotion of his second UK album saw Grant perform on GMTV, This Morning and The Alan Titchmarsh Show all on ITV1. The album did not perform as well as his debut, peaking at No. 29 on the UK Albums Chart.

He sold out five performances at Ronnie

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Peter Grant is in many ways the forgotten member of Led Zeppelin. No, he wasn’t on stage with the band playing an instrument or singing in a woman’s blouse, but Grant was largely responsible for Led Zeppelin’s rise from an offshoot of The Yardbirds to the biggest band in the world.

Mark Blake’s new book, “Bring It On Home,” follows the rise of Peter Grant from a showbiz hanger-on, playing bit parts in films and television shows to a titan of the music industry, using his heavyweight reputation (and physical size) to strong-arm promoters into giving Led Zeppelin the best deal possible.

Grant never knew the identity of his father, and his childhood was marred with instability. But when Grant found his way into London’s Soho in the fifties and sixties, he discovered an entertainment industry that was fertile ground for someone willing to devote himself to his acts – and to making sure that the bag of cash takings was always secured after the show.

Blake’s book vividly describes this environment, where fading stars like Gene Vin