William "Bill" Aucoin was an American band manager, well-known for his work with the rock band Kiss

KISS (band)

Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

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Biography

Born in 1943, Aucoin attended Northeastern University and graduated with a degree in film. He worked at WGBH

WGBH-TV

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 in Boston

Boston

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 during his college years and after. Aucoin later worked at Teletape Productions as a cinematographer. Credited with discovering Kiss

KISS (band)

Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

, Aucoin managed the group for nearly a decade. He quit in 1982 citing creative and directional differences, but later worked with the band on various DVD

DVD

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 projects.
Aucoin produced a television show called "Supermarket Sweep

Supermarket Sweep

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" in the early 1970s. From 2005 - 2007 Aucoin went into the Broadway business with a staging of the Who's Quadrophenia, which showed intermittently for two years in Anaheim, CA and Los Angeles. Aucoin had re-entered the management business with his company, Aucoin Globe Entertainment, at the time of his death of surgical complications from prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

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. He is survived by partner Roman Fernandez and two sisters Betty Britton and Janet Bankowski.

List of acts managed

Kiss

KISS (band)

Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

, 1973–1982

Piper 1975–1978

Spider

Spider (band)

Spider were an American rock band from New York. They formed in 1977 and disbanded up in 1984. The band released two studio albums through Dreamland Records in the early 1980s, and scored a few moderate hit singles in the United States...

, 1970s

Manowar, 1981

Kid Rocker, 1981-1983

Billy Idol

Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...

, 1982–1984

Brunette, 1988–1989

Rising Star, 1989–1990

Flipp

Flipp

Flipp is a Minneapolis-based band which attempted to revive the Glam-rock era of the early 1970s using its combination of tongue-in-cheek social commentary, self-deprecating wit, cartoonish stage costumes and bizarre, non-sensical electronics, pyrotechnics and production elements...

, 1998–2003

Starz

Starz (band)

Starz was a 1970s heavy metal and power pop band from New Jersey, United States. Despite a lack of big commercial success, the band has a lasting cult following and has been cited as a major influence by bands such as Mötley Crüe, Poison and Twisted Sister....

, 1977–1979

Crossbreed

Crossbreed (band)

Crossbreed was a six member industrial metal band from Clearwater, Florida, formed in 1996. They were signed with Artemis Records before being dropped from the label in 2003.-Early years:...

, 2003–2010

Lordi

Lordi

Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1996 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume-designer, Mr. Lordi. The band is known for wearing monster masks and using pyrotechnics during concerts...

, 2006–2010

Nothing Rhymes with Orange, 2007–2010

Evan Saffer, 2007–2010

BEX, 2010

The Early Strike, 2010

Tantric

Tantric (band)

Tantric is a rock band from Louisville, Kentucky. The group has released four studio albums since 2001; although, their last two albums only retain Tantric's original singer, Hugo Ferreira...

, 2010

Dreaming in Stereo

Fernando Perdomo

Fernando Jose Perdomo is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger. Originally from Miami Beach, Florida. He has toured, performed and recorded with various artists in both the Latin and Anglo markets...

, 2010

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