Jack Rieley

Jack Rieley (born November 24, 1942, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - died April 17, 2015, Berlin, Germany) was an American record producer and songwriter. He was the manager of [a70829] during the early 1970's, in the period from Surf's Up to Holland. It was Rieley's idea to move the band to the Netherlands to record Holland there, but after the album flopped, he was relieved of his duties. Rieley kept on living in the Netherlands for another couple of years, recording 1975's Western Justice rock book project about "the consequences for humanity of the First World’s heedless appetite for its natural resources, framed in a story set at some undetermined date in the future" (dixit Richard Williams). He was also involved in the telecommunications business.