Education
Born in 1943, Aucoin attended Northeastern University and graduated with a degree in film.
Born in 1943, Aucoin attended Northeastern University and graduated with a degree in film.
He worked at WGBH in Boston during his college years and after. Aucoin later worked at Teletape Productions as a cinematographer. Credited with discovering KISS, Aucoin managed the group for nearly a decade.
He was fired in 1982 due to a dispute about the band"s appearance, but later worked with the band on various Digital Video Disc projects.
He"s also infamous for passing on legendary rock band Van Halen before the band was snapped up by Warner Brothers Aucoin produced a television show called "Supermarket Sweep" in the early 1970s.
From 2005 to 2007, Aucoin went into the Broadway business with a staging of the Who"s Quadrophenia, which showed intermittently for two years in Anaheim, California and Los Los Angeles Aucoin had re-entered the management business with his company, Aucoin Globe Entertainment, at the time of his death of surgical complications from prostate cancer.
Kiss, 1973–1982
Piper 1975–1978New England 1978–1981Spider, 1979-1981Manowar, 1981
Kid Rocker, 1981–1983Billy Idol, 1979–1986Endgames, 1983-1985
Brunette, 1988–1989
Rising Star, 1989–1990Flipp, 1998–2003Starz, 1977–1979Crossbreed, 2003–2010Lordi, 2006–2010
Nothing Rhymes with Orange, 2007–2010
Evan Saffer, 2007–2010
BEX, 2010
The Early Strike, 2010Tantric, 2010
RoqueZa, 1998–2001Dreaming in Stereo, 2010.