# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allen-klein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:58.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allen-klein"
name: "Allen Klein"
slug: "allen-klein"
description: "Allen Klein was an American businessman whose aggressive negotiation tactics affected industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorporated. Klein increased profits for his musician clients by negotiating new record company contracts. He first scored monetary and contractual gains for Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen, one-hit rockabillies of the late 1950s, then parlayed his early successes into a position managing Sam Cooke, and eventually managed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones simultaneously, along with many other artists, becoming one of the most powerful individuals in the music industry during his era."
tagline: "American businessman, music publisher (1931–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allen_Klein_1950_yearbook_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-12-18"
deathDate: "2009-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.07
  momentum:             0.3002334545849395
  historical:           24.082992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458646/"
    handle:    "nm0458646"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Allen Klein"
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    title: "Allen Klein"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "앨런 클라인"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump