The Adelaide-born manager of the Bee Gees, The Who and Cream has passed away aged 81.

Adelaide-born Robert Stigwood, the longtime manager of the Bee Gees and the producer of the films Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Evita, has died aged 81. His death was announced Tuesday via a Facebook post by Spencer Gibb, son of Bee Gees member Robert Gibb.

“I would like to share the sad news with you all, that my godfather, and the longtime manager of my family, Robert Stigwood, has passed away,” Gibb wrote, adding that Stigwood was “a creative genius with a very quick and dry wit.”

Born in Adelaide in 1934, Stigwood moved to the U.K. in 1954, where he proceeded to discover and nurture a number of the pop acts who would go on to define the sound of the age. In the 1960s, he signed the Who to his short-lived label, Reaction Records, and went on to manage Cream and Eric Clapton. However his best-known work was with the falsetto-singing disco kings, the Bee Gees, whose hits Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, You Win Again and How Deep Is Your Love remain the most iconic tracks of 1970s...