The Rolling Stones, the Who, Rod Stewart, Elton John, David Bowie, Ten Years After and many other bands can all be thankful for the part played on their way to fame and fortune by the manager of the Marquee Club in the 1960s, John Gee, who has died aged 86.
He also had a particular passion for the music of a previous era and its performers Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra and was the first British journalist to interview Duke Ellington.
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