Many years later it was revealed that Lennon's successful performance at Varsity Stadium had given him the confidence to quit the famous Liverpool-made band. It was Glinert who drew up the contracts for that concert. The promoters of the Rock 'N' Roll Revival contacted the Apple offices in London, and although they failed in landing the Fab Four, they did get John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - an ad hoc outfit (involving Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton) that performed on the Varsity Stadium bill along with Berry, the Doors and others. In the age of Monterey, Woodstock and Altamont, large outdoor rock festivals were the rage, but nobody had ever booked the Beatles to such an event. Perhaps the biggest show he worked on was the Rock 'N' Roll Revival festival at Toronto's Varsity Stadium in 1969. Who knew that fake Frederick Lewis, the Remington Steele of his time, was such a vigorous man of adventure?
Those calling on him were informed that he was hang-gliding off Big Sur, surfing in Hawaii, skiing in New Zealand or otherwise unavailable. The playful secretary (often Glinert's younger sister, Ricki), would make up outlandish stories to cover for the absenteeism of the company's unreal boss.
Prior to becoming a prominent entertainment lawyer, the teenaged Glinert in 1967 co-founded the Toronto-based music-booking agency the Frederick Lewis Artist Placement Bureau, using his middle name (Lewis) and that of his partner to create the company's fictitious figurehead - a figurehead presumably much older and worldly than Gilnert, who, at 18, was thought to be the youngest agent ever certified by the American Federation of Musicians.įrom time to time, his office in Yorkville would receive phone inquires asking for Frederick Lewis, sometimes by people who claimed to actually know the persona. Ed Glinert made a name for himself, even if wasn't initially his own.
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