'''Dick Rowe''' was an A&R; man at Decca_Records from the 1940s to the 1960s.
He is historically presented in popular musical history as, "the man who turned down The_Beatles". Brian_Epstein had already been turned down by nearly all the record companies in London during the preceding year, before getting The Beatles signed to Parlophone; a label owned by EMI, which had - up to that point - only been a label that had released novelty songs.
Dick Rowe did sign, amongst others: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, The_Rolling_Stones because of a recommendation by George_Harrison, Vera_Lynn, Mantovani, Tom Jones, The_Bachelors and Them, Rowe produced some tracks by the last two.
Rowe died of diabetes on 6 June 1986.
==Reference==
*Ian Whitcomb
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