LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — Eric Gardner, the business veteran, artist supervisor, and founder/CEO of Panacea Leisure, died on July nineteenth at his house close to Los Angeles. He was 74.
His passing was commented on by his longtime shopper, bandleader Paul Shaffer who took to social media to share: “I misplaced a pricey buddy. My long-time supervisor, Eric Gardner, handed away at his house outdoors of Los Angeles. He has represented me since 1990, and was every thing one might need hoped his supervisor would be- good, fantastically spoken, may signify me in any space during which I needed to dabble, his counsel all the time sensible and true.”
Gardner based Panacea Leisure in 1970 whereas he was nonetheless a graduate pupil at Columbia College, coordinating excursions for shoppers akin 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 buddy’s brother or drug supplier. That labored in my favor. After I acquired into it, no one may contradict me that I used to be doing one thing mistaken,” Gardner instructed NCOPM’s Clinton Billups throughout a 2018 interview.
In 1974, the corporate transitioned to artist administration, creating a shopper 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 character Elvira, Mistress of the Darkish.
Gardner was inducted into the Private Supervisor’s Corridor of Fame in 2017.
