Queer Places:
Parsons School of Design, 66 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, Stati Uniti
Dakota Apartments, 1 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023, Stati Uniti
Robert
Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American
songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He was known for
producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the
Four Seasons.
As a songwriter, his most successful songs include "Silhouettes" (co-written with Frank Slay); "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like a Man", "Rag Doll", "Silence Is Golden", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and "Bye, Bye, Baby" (all co-written with Gaudio); "Let's Hang On!" (written with Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell); and "My Eyes Adored You" and "Lady Marmalade" (both co-written with Kenny Nolan). He also had hit recordings with the Rays, Diane Renay, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Freddy Cannon, Lesley Gore, Oliver, Michael Jackson, Bobby Darin, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Patti LaBelle, Barry Manilow, and his own Bob Crewe Generation.
While Crewe was portrayed as openly gay in the Jersey Boys film, his brother Dan Crewe told an interviewer that his brother was discreet about his sexuality, particularly during the time he was working with the Four Seasons.[6] "Whenever he met someone, he would go into what I always called his John Wayne mode, this extreme machoism," Dan Crewe told The New York Times.[6]
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Dakota Apartments, 1 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023, Stati Uniti
From April 2014 until his death, Crewe resided in a Scarborough, Maine, nursing home. His charity, the Bob Crewe Foundation, donated $3 million to the Maine College of Art in April 2014.[7]
Crewe died in the nursing home on September 11, 2014, at the age of 83.[8][9] He had been in declining health for several years following a fall.[6]
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