Terry Knight was awarded the honorary title of "The Sixth Stone" for his early support of the Stones.
21 Facts About Terry Knight
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In 1967 Terry Knight moved to New York City, and attempted a solo career as a singer and staff producer with the Cameo-Parkway label, with limited success.
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Terry Knight scored music for the 20th Century Fox noir film, The Incident.
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Terry Knight traveled to London in 1968, hoping to become a recording artist or producer for the Beatles' newly formed Apple Records.
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Terry Knight met Paul McCartney and was present at some of the recording sessions for the band's 1968 double album The Beatles, including the session when Ringo Starr temporarily quit the group.
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Terry Knight was surprised to find the band members arguing with each other.
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Terry Knight soon left London after he was unable to negotiate a contract with acceptable terms.
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In early 1969, Terry Knight secured a producer's contract with Capitol Records which allowed him to release his own songs as a solo artist.
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The cryptic lyrics of the song are generally thought to allude to Terry Knight's failed relationship with McCartney and his apparent belief that the Beatles would soon break up.
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Reeve was unable to get Terry Knight to talk about the song.
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Still working as a producer with Capitol, Terry Knight renewed his connection with two former Pack members, guitarist Mark Farner and drummer Don Brewer.
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Terry Knight encouraged the two to add a new bass player and become a "power trio" along the lines of Cream.
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Between Grand Funk and Bloodrock, Terry Knight racked up an unprecedented eight gold albums while simultaneously waging a war of words with Rolling Stone over the magazine's frequent pannings of the two acts.
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In Grand Funk's case, it involved court actions that kept the band tied up for almost two full years; they had demanded full royalty accounting and accused Terry Knight of double-dipping as manager-producer, while the trio had not been getting all the monies they had earned.
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Terry Knight was dropped from Capitol soon after the Grand Funk court actions were resolved and began his own label, Brown Bag Records, releasing albums and singles by Mom's Apple Pie, John Hambrick, Wild Cherry and Faith Band.
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None of them found commercial success and, in late 1973, Terry Knight retired permanently from show business.
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Terry Knight associated with super model Twiggy and raced cars with film star Paul Newman in the mid-1970s before becoming addicted to cocaine, which consumed him.
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Terry Knight melded into the community working in advertising sales for a weekly newspaper.
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On November 1,2004, Terry Knight was murdered at the age of 61.
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Terry Knight was stabbed multiple times by his teenage daughter's boyfriend Donald A Fair in their shared apartment in Temple, Texas, after Knight attempted to intercede in an argument over Fair's use of methamphetamine.
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Terry Knight was cremated and buried in a family plot in Lapeer, Michigan.