Jul 31, 2022, 12:29 AM

Dave Heckman, Metropolis Records.

Maybe not a true celebrity outside of the goth-industrial subculture, but largely responsible for exposing a whole lot of European acts to the US, and he didn't make his seed money for his label by bootlegging t-shirts like the dude from Cleopatra Records. Ahem.

https://www.metropolis-records.com/news/456/metropolis-records-is-devastated-to-announce-the-death-of-our-founder-and-label-owner-dave-heckman-