From The Hollywood Reporter:
Steve Popovich, a veteran music industry executive who played a key role in Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell as well as the careers of the Jackson 5, Cheap Trick, Boston and many others, died Wednesday morning at his apartment in Murfreesboro, Tenn., the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. He was 68.
A cause of death has not been determined, his son Steve Popovich Jr. said.
Popovich ran Cleveland International Records and was based in the city for much of his career. The Plain Dealer described him as “a music-industry insider but also a working-class maverick who worked outside the corporate system.”
• Steve Popovich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Popovich
