Peter Gormley
Peter Gormley was an Australian born artist manager who guided the early careers of many recording artists, including Frank Ifield, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Marvin Welch & Farrar, Labi Siffre and Olivia Newton-John.
During the early 1970's the British Music press (NME et al) sarcastically coined the phrase "The Gum Leaf Mafia" to describe Australian clients of Peter Gormley who arrived en masse in London in the late 1960's eg Olivia Newton-John, The Seekers, The New Seekers, Kevin Peek, Terry Britten, Alan Tarney, Trevor Spencer, John Farrar, Barrie Guard, etc.
Peter Gormely died on 8th May 1998 aged 78. Gormley had been in retirement for some five years when he died of colon cancer at the age of 78, two years after the passing of his wife, Audrey. He is survived by a daughter, Robyn, and by nieces Miriam and Clare Gormley, both of whom are rising swiftly as young international opera singers.