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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/cleveland-stories-program-recalls-car
 eer-of-cleveland-music-box-mogul-steve-popovich/
SUMMARY:Cleveland Stories Program Recalls Career of NEO Music Mogul Steve P
 opovich
DESCRIPTION:[caption id="attachment_170135" align="alignnone" width="700"] 
 Photo by Anastasia Pantsios[/caption]\nWed 12/3 @ 7PM\nThere’s never bee
 n anyone quite like Steve Popovich. He arrived in Cleveland from Western P
 ennsylvania like he was shot out of a cannon\, making a big mark on the lo
 cal music and record company scene before heading to Epic Records in New Y
 ork where he was involved in signing artists such as Bruce Springsteen\, t
 he Jacksons and many more.\nBut then he discovered an artist he was passio
 nate about that he couldn’t convince his label to sign — and that arti
 st had been turned down by every major label. So Popovich returned to Clev
 eland where he established a boutique label run out of his home in Willoug
 hby Hills called Cleveland International Records to sign that artist. That
  artists was Meat Loaf\, whose debut album for Cleveland Internation\, Bat
  Out of Hell\, became one of the best-selling albums of all time\, thanks 
 to Popovich’s relentless promotion.\nIn the 1980s\, Popovich moved down 
 to Nashville to head Polygram’s Nashville branch. But he never forgot hi
 s ethnic — and Cleveland — roots. His first act was to re-issue a floc
 k of Frankie Yankovic polka albums.  When he believed\, he REALLY believe
 d. Later on\, he returned to Cleveland to reactivate Cleveland Internation
 al to make sure acts he was passionate about had a home. He passed away in
  2011. His son\, Steve Jr.\, has kept Cleveland International alive\, reis
 suing some of the old albums along with some new material.\nSteve Jr. will
  be one of the panelists at a Cleveland Stories evening at the Music Box S
 upper Club called “How Steve Popovich &amp\; Cleveland International Rec
 ords changed Rock n’ Roll.” He’ll be joined by John Gorman\, the cre
 ative mind behind WMMS in its heyday\, when it played a huge role as a lin
 chpin of the campaign to break Meat Loaf.\nAlso on the panel are a pair of
  Cleveland-based attorneys\, Dennis Terez and Scott Orille\, presumably to
  talk about the long-term legal battle between CBS Records and Popovich Sr
  and later Jr to receive a fair accounting for the royalties on the mega-s
 elling Bat Out of Hell. (It was finally settled eight years after Popovich
  Sr’s death.)\nThe program is free\; doors open at 5pm for dinner. Make 
 a reservation here.\nmusicboxcle.com/event/cleveland-international\n[mappr
 ess mapid="2593"]
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