Bill Aucoin

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William 'Gui' Aucoin (also known as Bill Aucoin) is a band manager that has managed several successful bands during the course of his career. He is known to have discovered Kiss when they appeared on his TV Program and he then worked with them for the next 8 years; even owning a merchandising company which sold Kiss fan products. He left the band management business from the middle 1980s to the late 1990s.

He is now back in the management business and has formed a management company with his partner Kosta Kantzoglou, called Aucoin Globe Entertainment. As of late 2006 he has two bands he is working with fulltime: Crossbreed and a band from Finland, Lordi that has just signed with The End Records.[1]

[edit] List of bands managed

Kiss manager 1973–1981
Piper manager 1975–1977
Spider manager 197?–197? (featured Anton Fig on drums)
Manowar manager for a brief time circa. 1981
Billy Idol manager 1982–1984
Flipp manager 1998?–2003
Starz manager 1977–1979
Crossbreed manager 2003–present
Lordi manager 2006–present

[edit] Trivia

• Bill Aucoin originally produced a television show called "Supermarket Sweeps" in the early (Pre-1973) 1970s.