LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — Eric Gardner, the trade veteran, artist supervisor, and founder/CEO of Panacea Leisure, died on July nineteenth at his residence close to Los Angeles. He was 74.
His passing was commented on by his longtime consumer, bandleader Paul Shaffer who took to social media to share: “I misplaced a pricey good friend. My long-time supervisor, Eric Gardner, handed away at his residence outdoors of Los Angeles. He has represented me since 1990, and was all the things one may need hoped his supervisor would be- sensible, fantastically spoken, might characterize me in any space by which I needed to dabble, his counsel all the time smart and true.”
Gardner based Panacea Leisure in 1970 whereas he was nonetheless a graduate scholar at Columbia College, coordinating excursions for shoppers comparable to Jefferson Airplane and Kiss.
“Again then there wasn’t private administration,” Gardner mentioned. “In rock ‘n’ roll, it was your next-door neighbor, your good friend’s brother or drug supplier. That labored in my favor. After I bought into it, no one might contradict me that I used to be doing one thing mistaken,” Gardner advised NCOPM’s Clinton Billups throughout a 2018 interview.
In 1974, the corporate transitioned to artist administration, growing a consumer roster that included the likes of Invoice Wyman, Timothy Leary, Todd Rundgren, The Stray Cats, Jefferson Starship, Blue Oyster Cult, and Bettye LaVette, amongst others.
Within the Eighties, Panacea relocated from New York to Los Angeles and expanded its scope to incorporate movie and tv after signing tv persona Elvira, Mistress of the Darkish.
Gardner was inducted into the Private Supervisor’s Corridor of Fame in 2017.