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Jerry Heller

Jerry Heller
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Jerry Heller

Across five tumultuous decades, Jerry Heller has helped shape American popular music, breaking new talent, developing new trends, and forging an industry-wide reputation as "the guy who gets there first." He rose to prominence in the 1960s as a "superagent," importing Elton John and Pink Floyd for their first major American tours, and representing Journey, Marvin Gaye, Joan Armatrading, Van Morrison, War, Average White Band, ELO, Eric Burdon, and Crosby-Nash, among many others. In the mid-1980s, Heller was the moving force and marketing genius behind the worldwide emergence of West Coast rap music. He not only cofounded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E, but discovered,... Read full bio

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All Hip Hop, August 31, 2011
...slander. You can't sue me for the truth and what I've seen with my own eyes. Jerry Heller even told me, “I want to read what you've got on Suge!” Follow us on Twitter http://www.Twitter.com/AllHipHopCom...
All Hip Hop, August 31, 2011
...slander. You can't sue me for the truth and what I've seen with my own eyes. Jerry Heller even told me, “I want to read what you've got on Suge!” Follow us on Twitter http://www.Twitter.com/AllHipHopCom...
Top40-Charts, May 24, 2011
...later, the group dismantled sparking a bitter feud between Ice Cube and his former band members and manager Jerry Heller, which lead to Ice Cube's decision to embark on a solo career. In an unexpected move, Ice Cube took a movie role in John Singleton's...
TravelConnect.in, February 25, 2011
...writing that rap. That’s what they were doing. DX: That’s no.beats by dre t what Jerry Heller wrote in his book, [Ruthless: A Memoir]. I was just on Google Books – you can skim through his book to see all the mentions of D.O.C...
TravelConnect.in, February 25, 2011
...writing that rap. That’s what they were doing. DX: That’s no.beats by dre t what Jerry Heller wrote in his book, [Ruthless: A Memoir]. I was just on Google Books – you can skim through his book to see all the mentions of D.O.C...
TravelConnect.in, February 25, 2011
...writing that rap. That’s what they were doing. DX: That’s no.beats by dre t what Jerry Heller wrote in his book, [Ruthless: A Memoir]. I was just on Google Books – you can skim through his book to see all the mentions of D.O.C...
TravelConnect.in, February 25, 2011
...writing that rap. That’s what they were doing. DX: That’s no.beats by dre t what Jerry Heller wrote in his book, [Ruthless: A Memoir]. I was just on Google Books – you can skim through his book to see all the mentions of D.O.C...
Vh1 Blog, May 23, 2011
...later, the group dismantled sparking a bitter feud between Ice Cube and his former band members and manager Jerry Heller, which lead to Ice Cube’s decision to embark on a solo career. In an unexpected move, Ice Cube took a movie role in John...