Former Scissor Sisters, The Verve and Lisa Stansfield manager Jazz Summers

The Charltan’s Tim Burgess added: “A sad farewell to Jazz Summers – music legend and good friend of The Charlatans”.

Summer managed countless acts over the years, including The Verve, Lisa Stansfield, Yazz, Boy George, Badly Drawn Boy, Snow Patrol, Klaxons and Scissor Sisters. Various Artists Management’s David Bianchi said that “UK music has lost a big force” with Summers’ passing. “A champion of newest music, a non-conformist & a visionary, Jazz Summers shall be considerably missed”. “His ability to hear a song and recognize its power and potential brought him huge success across several decades”. He co-founded Big Life Management 29 years ago, and has since played a key role in the company helping to sell – according to The Guardian – 60 million albums and 72 million singles. He served as a radiographer, spending time in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

In 1985, along with with manager Simon Napier-Bell, Jazz helped Wham! break America and become the first western pop group to tour China.

“In 2003, Jazz was awarded the prestigious Peter Grant Award and in 2007, the Strat Award at the Music Week Awards”. “A fighter till the end”.

A spokesman for Big Life Management said Summers was one of the industry’s “most vibrant, most notorious” personalities. Thank you Jazz Summers for your guidance and friendship.

“Jazz was a one-off – they broke the mould after his creation”, reads a statement from the Music Mangers Forum. He believed in Snow Patrol when few did and was a huge reason for our success.

Jazz Summers, who released an autobiography in September 2013, is survived by his wife Dianna, his daughters Katie, Rio and Georgia, and his granddaughters Claire, Lila and Rose.