Chris Stamp
| Chris Stamp | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Christopher Thomas Stamp |
| Born |
7 July 1942 East End of London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 24 November 2012 (aged 70) New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer |
| Years active | 1964–2012 |
| Labels | Track Records |
| Associated acts | |
Christopher Thomas "Chris" Stamp (7 July 1942 – 24 November 2012) was a British music producer and manager known for co-managing and producing such musical acts as The Who and Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s and 1970s and co-founding the now defunct Track Records. He later became a psychodrama therapist based in the state of New York.
Born into a working-class family, Stamp and his four siblings started their lives in London's East End. The actor Terence Stamp was his older brother. Their father, Thomas Stamp, was a tugboat captain, and their mother was Ethel (née Perrott).
Stamp started out as a filmmaker and met business partner and collaborator Kit Lambert while working at Shepperton Film Studios as an assistant director—they both worked on such films as I Could Go On Singing, The L-Shaped Room and Of Human Bondage. Eventually the pair came to share a flat in west London, and in 1963 Lambert convinced Stamp that the two should direct their own film about the burgeoning British rock scene. "Our idea was to find a group that somehow represented the emerging ideas of our time. They would be rebellious, anarchistic and uniquely different from the established English pop scene," said Stamp.
Stamp and Lambert met the members of The Who during one of their performances at the Railway Hotel (no longer standing) in Harrow and Wealdstone. At that time the band was known as the High Numbers. Lambert said the following of the experience:
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