Harold Pendleton
Harold Pendleton (17 July 1924 – 22 September 2017) was a British music business executive and former club owner, who established the
Biography
Born in
In 1958, Pendleton took over the jazz nights held in the Marquee Ballroom in
As Secretary of the NJF, and after being involved in earlier jazz festivals at Beaulieu,[3] Pendleton set up the first National Jazz Festival in 1961. Over time, the event expanded to include not only jazz but also blues, rhythm and blues, and rock music, before becoming known as the Reading Festival.[2]
In 1987 Pendleton sold the Marquee Club to Billy Gaff,[1] and he retired from his role at the Reading Festival in 1988. Before that, in 1979, he and his wife Barbara became partners with a lighting and sound equipment company, Entec Sound & Light, which had been established by Pat Chapman in 1968 to provide services for rock and pop bands, clubs and festivals.[2]
Pendleton died in 2017, aged 93, after a short illness.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Harold Pendleton 1924 – 2017, Entec Sound & Light. Retrieved 15 October 2017
- ^ a b c d "Harold Pendleton", TheMarqueeClub.net Archived 2014-10-22 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 May 2014
- ^ a b Simon Frith et al., The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967, Ashgate Publishing, 2013
- ^ Christopher Andersen, Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger, Simon and Schuster, 2012, p.37