Patrick Meehan

Who is Patrick Meehan?

Patrick Meehan is a record producer who worked with Black Sabbath. He was also their manager until 1975.

In 1970 Patrick Joseph Meehan, Patrick Anthony Meehan, Wilf Pine, Malcolm Koss, first Ian Nagl then Quintin Rozario made up the office of Worldwide Artiste Management, managers of Black Sabbath, Gentle Giant, Freedom, Black Widow, Dutch band Cobra, Catapilla, Redbone and Mama Lion at No.4 Leicester Street above a coffee shop.

Meehan was only 23 years old then and had an enormous influence on those around him with the support of his father Meehan Sr, a former stuntman in the successful British TV series Danger Man. Meehan Snr was also briefly Gene Vincent's roadie and cut his teeth in the business with one Don Arden handling the Small Faces, the Animals and the like in the 1960s.

In late 1970 and on the advice of Roger Meyers, when the company was making significant profits from the Black Sabbath phenomenon, it listed on the London Stock Exchange. English blues rock trio The Groundhogs was later acquired by Worldwide Artiste Management after a brief courtship with Wilf Pine.