Don Arden (Black Sabbath, Small Faces)

The legend of Arden’s career revolves around windows. When a member of the Nashville Teens – a band Don managed in the mid-sixties – had the nerve to ask for moneys owed to him, he threatened to hurl him from his office window. Later on when Arden heard Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood was looking to poach his clients the Small Faces; he and some friends went over to Stigwood’s office and hung him over his balcony until he reconsidered. Later on, Arden’s daughter Sharon Osbourne would take a just as uncompromising position in managing her hubby Ozzy Osbourne, just not with such an emphasis on windows.