Joe Owens

Canadian musician, promoter, manager and record company executive. In 1973 he joined Quality Records Limited as National Promotion Manager. Soon moved to Island Records' Canadian branch in fall of 1974 as Promotion Manager. He left Island in 1975 to co-found promotion company Charles-Dunne& Owens with partner Robert Charles-Dunne, founders of the El Mocambo label. In 1976 he returned to Quality for a short period then in 1978 started at CBS Records Canada Ltd as director of A&R and national publicity. He left CBS in February 1979 to join Mushroom Records (5) as AOR Director. In June of that year he was promoted to General Manager. He then started managing Triumph (2) in the early 1980s. In 1986 he founded management/publicity agency Entertainment Marketing Group but by 1989 had abandoned the venture and joined Concert Productions International, eventually becoming Marketing Director of its parent, BCL Entertainment Corporation.