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Blackhill Enterprises was a rock music
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 management company, founded as a partnership by the four original members of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
, with Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner

Peter Jenner is a United Kingdom music management of rock bands and acts, and a record producer. He has also worked as an A&R man. With Andrew King , he was part of Blackhill Enterprises, which managed Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett's solo career, Kevin Ayers , Marc Bolan, Roy Harper, The Edgar Broughton Band and The Clash....
 and Andrew King
Andrew King (music manager)

Andrew King is a music management, formerly for Blackhill Enterprises, where he co-managed Pink Floyd and others.Acts he has managed since leaving Blackhill include Ian Dury....
.

Blackhill were the organisers of the first Hyde Park free concerts.

After Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
 left Pink Floyd, the partnership was dissolved, and Jenner and King continued Blackhill to manage Barrett. Following Blackhill's eventual dissolution, both Jenner and King continued to work in music management.

They also managed:






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Blackhill Enterprises was a rock music
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 management company, founded as a partnership by the four original members of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
, with Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner

Peter Jenner is a United Kingdom music management of rock bands and acts, and a record producer. He has also worked as an A&R man. With Andrew King , he was part of Blackhill Enterprises, which managed Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett's solo career, Kevin Ayers , Marc Bolan, Roy Harper, The Edgar Broughton Band and The Clash....
 and Andrew King
Andrew King (music manager)

Andrew King is a music management, formerly for Blackhill Enterprises, where he co-managed Pink Floyd and others.Acts he has managed since leaving Blackhill include Ian Dury....
.

Blackhill were the organisers of the first Hyde Park free concerts.

After Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
 left Pink Floyd, the partnership was dissolved, and Jenner and King continued Blackhill to manage Barrett. Following Blackhill's eventual dissolution, both Jenner and King continued to work in music management.

They also managed:
  • Marc Bolan
    Marc Bolan

    Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
     (who met his wife, June Child, while she was working as Blackhill's secretary)
  • Edgar Broughton Band
    Edgar Broughton Band

    The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, is an England progressive rock band ....
  • The Clash
    The Clash

    The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  • Ian Dury
    Ian Dury

    Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  • Roy Harper
    Roy Harper

    Roy Harper , is an English people Rock music / Folk music singer-songwriter / guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s....
  • Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
    Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias

    Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias were a comedy rock band, formed in Manchester, England in 1973. Their story is told in the book 'When We Were Thin' ....