SANTA BARBARA, CA (CelebrityAccess) — Eddie Rosenblatt, a veteran label government recognized for his lengthy tenure at Geffen Data, died on July sixteenth. He was 89.
In line with a press release from his publicist, Rosenblatt handed at a hospital in Santa Barbara from issues of pneumonia.
A New York native, Rosenblatt attended Brooklyn School and did a stint within the U.S. Military within the Nineteen Fifties earlier than he relocated to Cleveland for his first music trade position at Cosnat Distribution, and later, Mainline Distribution, the place he met fellow music legends comparable to Phil and Leonard Chess.
In 1967, Rosenblatt relocated to Los Angeles for a task as Gross sales Director at A&M Data. He went on to co-found the impartial label, TA Data with Steve Binder.
In 1971, Rosenblatt joined Warner Bros. Data as Director of Gross sales and helped to supervise the launch of WEA Distribution and was ultimately named Vice President of Gross sales and Radio Promotion.
9 years later, he joined with David Geffen to launch Geffen Data and served because the label’s first president, and helped to interrupt artists comparable to Peter Gabriel, Quarterflash, and Whitesnake.
Following the sale of Geffen in 1990. Rosenblatt joined Geffen’s new venture, DGC, once more serving because the label’s first president. Rosenblatt was later named because the successor for DreamWorks SKG after Geffen introduced he was stepping down in 1995.
“For those who consider David because the imaginative and prescient behind Geffen Data, then Eddie is the center. That label is not only worthwhile, it’s bought hipness and warmth, and Eddie is the glue that has held it collectively all these years,” Warner Data Govt Mo Ostin mentioned, in line with an obituary supplied by Rosenblatt’s publicist.
In 1998, amid the consolidation of the label trade, Rosenblatt stepped away from the label enterprise and relocated together with his spouse, Barbara “Bobbi” Rosenblatt, to Montecito, the place they engaged in native charitable actions, together with a task on the board of the non-profit outpatient Sansum Clinic.
Eddie is survived by his 4 youngsters, Michael, Steven, Peter, and Gretchen, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. His spouse Bobbi, to whom he was married for 68 years, handed away in 2023.
A memorial service continues to be to be deliberate and particulars shall be shared with family and friends within the coming weeks. In lieu of flowers, the household requests that donations be made in Eddie’s reminiscence to the Sansum Clinic, a nonprofit healthcare group, at https://www.sansumclinic.org/donate-now.
