Patrick Meehan (producer)

Patrick Meehan is a record producer who has mainly worked with Black Sabbath. He was also their manager, and they parted by 1977.

In 1970 there was Patrick Joseph Meehan (Pat Snr), Patrick Anthony Meehan (Jnr), Wilf Pine, Malcolm Koss, first Ian Nagel then Quintin Rozario at the office of Worldwide Artiste Management, Managers of Black Sabbath, Gentle Giant (remnants of 60's pop band Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, the Schulman Brothers) Freedom (former Procol Harum drummer Bobby Harrison) Black Widow, Dutch Band Cobra, Caterpillar (Jo Anne Meek?)Redbone and Mama Lion (both American Bands) at No.4 Leicester Street (Next to the Swiss centre) upstairs of a coffee shop. The girls were Caroline Crown and Maureen King, later to be replaced by Leslie Spencer Morris (Lee).

Frequent visitors to number 4 included Pat Meehan Jr's then girlfriend Jill Vergoins, Peter Musker, Roger Meyers Chartered Accountant and later husband of Lee Spencer Morris. Roger was accountant and financial advisor to the firm and its clients and of one Bill Wyman (of Rollingstones fame).

Koss was the enigmatic Mr Fixit in the regular prolonged absence of Meehan Pat Jnr touring the US with Black Sabbath. Koss often solved the many problems of emerging bands in the stable and negotiated agreements for publishing and recording as well as live performances with promoters and record companies.

It was Koss who encouraged Quintin Rozario then office boy general assistant and his budding A&R to consider a move into production, publishing and engineering. Quintin later became a recording engineer and moved to Australia after a brief period of training in Japan now a successful lawyer in Australia.

Pat Meehan was only 23 years old then and had an enormous influence on those around him with the support of his father Meehan Sr a former stuntman in the successful British TV series Dangerman. Meehan Snr was also briefly Gene Vincent's roadie and cut his teeth in the business with one Don Arden handling the Small Faces, the Animals and the like in the 1960's.

In late 1970 and on the advice of Roger Meyers when the company was making significant profits from the Black Sabbath phenomenon it listed on the London Stock Exchange. English Blues rock trio the Groundhogs was later acquired by Worldwide Artiste Management after a brief courtship with Wilf Pine and Pat Meehan who was considered the more appealing of the two.

The company then around 1971 merged with the interests of Hemdale Ltd (named after their founders actor David Hemmings and John Daley)and moved into Mayfair adding to its growing stable of artistes, child actors Mark Lester and Jack Wilde of Oliver fame and another English music phenomenon of its time the band Yes.

The interests of Pat Meehan grew and became varied to the extent that he moved on to other things immersing himself in the broader music and entertainment industry whilst the fortunes of his biggest money earner began to fade. They were to part company on acrimonious terms not long after.

External links

* [http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Black+Sabbath-1840.html report] on theft from his home