He achieved notoriety in Britain for his aggressive, sometimes illegal business tactics; which led to his being called "Mr Big", the "Yiddish Godfather" and the "Meyer Lansky of Pop".
He was married to Hope Shaw, a former ballet dancer/teacher, who died in 1999. He was the father of David Levy and Sharon Osbourne (and father-in-law of Ozzy Osbourne).
Arden's success story turned sour when his violent 'negotiating' methods and questionable accounting caught up with him, and he became estranged from members of his own family.
Early life and career
Born into a Jewish family in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire. Arden began his showbusiness career when he was just 13 years old as a singer and stand-up comic after briefly attending the Royal College of Music and in 1944 changed his name from Harry Levy to Don Arden. After being demobilised from the British Army at the end of World War II, Arden returned to carve out his showbiz career from 1946 to 1953.
The Don Arden Story PT1 (Manager of Jet Records, Father of Sharon Osbourne)
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
published: 12 Jun 2013
Don Arden - The Small Faces, Black Sabbath, ELO Manager | Masters of Pop: Money Makers (2016)
Music Moguls: Masters of Pop - Money Makers - BBC Documentary 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPJiey6vck
published: 11 Mar 2016
Bev Bevan talks about Don Arden (ELO manager)
http://www.elodiscovery.com/
DISCOVERY - Welcome to the show.
Jeff Lynne & ELO website
published: 05 Dec 2011
Mick Wall knows things about Don Arden and Jimi Hendrix that will make your hair curl
Writer, broadcaster, magazine editor and serial rock biographer, Mick Wall has a few stories up his sleeve. His mum sent him to school in a collarless Beatles suit with the trousers cut into shorts. This captivating trawl includes his early days at Sounds and Kerrang!, coach trips with Motorhead, going through Kate Bush’s record collection, Wings' manager’s attempt to fire Linda McCartney, pop press clichés, writing an Ozzy memoir in three weeks, being offered some “fleetwood mac” by Phil Lynott, Don Arden “drilling lighted cigars” into people’s foreheads and compelling reasons why Hendrix might have been murdered. Mick’s done that thing that so many threaten to do but rarely have the nerve: he’s got rid of all his physical music and gone entirely digital – with joyous consequences. And he...
published: 25 Apr 2022
Arthur Sharp was a Nashville Teen and then worked for Don Arden
The Sixties and trying to get paid
published: 23 Aug 2012
The Don Arden Story PT3 (Manager of Jet Records, Father of Sharon Osbourne)
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
published: 12 Jun 2013
LAURENCE MYERS - ‘A meeting with Don Arden’
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
Lawrence Myers meets Don Arden for the first time to ask him to pay a debt owed to The Animals who were one of his clients. And things didn’t quite turn out how Lawrence had planned...
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
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published: 10 Jun 2020
The Don Arden Story PT2 (Manager of Jet Records, Father of Sharon Osbourne)
The Al Capone of Pop..
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
published: 12 Jun 2013
Don Arden grave
Don was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. Though he lived mainly in California he was brought home to be buried near his roots.
To see photos please click here: http://johnhalley.uk/Grave%20-%20Don%20Arden.htm
published: 26 May 2020
Nick Mobbs struggles with Don Arden and Roy Wood for Harvest
fighting to keep your artists as well as spotting the hits
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
Writer, broadcaster, magazine editor and serial rock biographer, Mick Wall has a few stories up his sleeve. His mum sent him to school in a collarless Beatles s...
Writer, broadcaster, magazine editor and serial rock biographer, Mick Wall has a few stories up his sleeve. His mum sent him to school in a collarless Beatles suit with the trousers cut into shorts. This captivating trawl includes his early days at Sounds and Kerrang!, coach trips with Motorhead, going through Kate Bush’s record collection, Wings' manager’s attempt to fire Linda McCartney, pop press clichés, writing an Ozzy memoir in three weeks, being offered some “fleetwood mac” by Phil Lynott, Don Arden “drilling lighted cigars” into people’s foreheads and compelling reasons why Hendrix might have been murdered. Mick’s done that thing that so many threaten to do but rarely have the nerve: he’s got rid of all his physical music and gone entirely digital – with joyous consequences. And he can tell you the Greatest Record Ever Made.
Steven Wilson’s ‘Limited Edition of One’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Limited-One-Steven-Wilson/dp/0349135096
‘Two Riders Were Approaching: the Life and Death of Jimi Hendrix’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Riders-Were-Approaching-Hendrix/dp/1409160297
Mick’s other rock biographies …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mick-Wall/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AMick+Wall
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Writer, broadcaster, magazine editor and serial rock biographer, Mick Wall has a few stories up his sleeve. His mum sent him to school in a collarless Beatles suit with the trousers cut into shorts. This captivating trawl includes his early days at Sounds and Kerrang!, coach trips with Motorhead, going through Kate Bush’s record collection, Wings' manager’s attempt to fire Linda McCartney, pop press clichés, writing an Ozzy memoir in three weeks, being offered some “fleetwood mac” by Phil Lynott, Don Arden “drilling lighted cigars” into people’s foreheads and compelling reasons why Hendrix might have been murdered. Mick’s done that thing that so many threaten to do but rarely have the nerve: he’s got rid of all his physical music and gone entirely digital – with joyous consequences. And he can tell you the Greatest Record Ever Made.
Steven Wilson’s ‘Limited Edition of One’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Limited-One-Steven-Wilson/dp/0349135096
‘Two Riders Were Approaching: the Life and Death of Jimi Hendrix’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Riders-Were-Approaching-Hendrix/dp/1409160297
Mick’s other rock biographies …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mick-Wall/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AMick+Wall
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The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
Lawrence Myers meets Don Arden for the first time to ask him to pay a debt owed to The Animals who were...
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
Lawrence Myers meets Don Arden for the first time to ask him to pay a debt owed to The Animals who were one of his clients. And things didn’t quite turn out how Lawrence had planned...
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
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See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
Lawrence Myers meets Don Arden for the first time to ask him to pay a debt owed to The Animals who were one of his clients. And things didn’t quite turn out how Lawrence had planned...
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
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The Al Capone of Pop..
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop..
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
The Al Capone of Pop..
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
Don was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. Though he lived mainly in California he was brought home to be buried near his roots.
To see photos p...
Don was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. Though he lived mainly in California he was brought home to be buried near his roots.
To see photos please click here: http://johnhalley.uk/Grave%20-%20Don%20Arden.htm
Don was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. Though he lived mainly in California he was brought home to be buried near his roots.
To see photos please click here: http://johnhalley.uk/Grave%20-%20Don%20Arden.htm
The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
Writer, broadcaster, magazine editor and serial rock biographer, Mick Wall has a few stories up his sleeve. His mum sent him to school in a collarless Beatles suit with the trousers cut into shorts. This captivating trawl includes his early days at Sounds and Kerrang!, coach trips with Motorhead, going through Kate Bush’s record collection, Wings' manager’s attempt to fire Linda McCartney, pop press clichés, writing an Ozzy memoir in three weeks, being offered some “fleetwood mac” by Phil Lynott, Don Arden “drilling lighted cigars” into people’s foreheads and compelling reasons why Hendrix might have been murdered. Mick’s done that thing that so many threaten to do but rarely have the nerve: he’s got rid of all his physical music and gone entirely digital – with joyous consequences. And he can tell you the Greatest Record Ever Made.
Steven Wilson’s ‘Limited Edition of One’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Limited-One-Steven-Wilson/dp/0349135096
‘Two Riders Were Approaching: the Life and Death of Jimi Hendrix’ …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Riders-Were-Approaching-Hendrix/dp/1409160297
Mick’s other rock biographies …
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mick-Wall/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AMick+Wall
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Tickets for Word In The Park in London on Saturday June 18th: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/were-throwing-a-party-for-paul-mccartneys-80th-and-youre-invited-tickets-259008229587
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The Al Capone of Pop
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
Lawrence Myers meets Don Arden for the first time to ask him to pay a debt owed to The Animals who were one of his clients. And things didn’t quite turn out how Lawrence had planned...
See the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/y4WTNbETTx0
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The Al Capone of Pop..
Don Arden was the owner of Jet Records. Which later was managed by his children, Sharon & David Osbourne. This is his life story.....
Don was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. Though he lived mainly in California he was brought home to be buried near his roots.
To see photos please click here: http://johnhalley.uk/Grave%20-%20Don%20Arden.htm
He achieved notoriety in Britain for his aggressive, sometimes illegal business tactics; which led to his being called "Mr Big", the "Yiddish Godfather" and the "Meyer Lansky of Pop".
He was married to Hope Shaw, a former ballet dancer/teacher, who died in 1999. He was the father of David Levy and Sharon Osbourne (and father-in-law of Ozzy Osbourne).
Arden's success story turned sour when his violent 'negotiating' methods and questionable accounting caught up with him, and he became estranged from members of his own family.
Early life and career
Born into a Jewish family in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire. Arden began his showbusiness career when he was just 13 years old as a singer and stand-up comic after briefly attending the Royal College of Music and in 1944 changed his name from Harry Levy to Don Arden. After being demobilised from the British Army at the end of World War II, Arden returned to carve out his showbiz career from 1946 to 1953.