“It is with great regret and broken hearts that we announce his death today Manfred Schutzfounder and head of the legendary label SPV Entertainment” – we read in the entry of the Polish label Mystic Productionwhich distributed many CDs with the SPV label on our market.
Manfred Schütz is dead. “You were the best”
“Thank you Manfred for all these years of cooperation, dozens, hundreds of albums. For your passion, for your charisma, for your humor, for your professionalism. You had character, you had a vision and you took no prisoners on the way to achieving it – you were the best. (. ..) You are a legend!” – add representatives of Mystica.
After leaving the SPV, Manfred Schütz founded MIG Musicwhere he tried to save musical treasures from oblivion.
“Manfred was not only a music enthusiast and businessman, but also an open and warm person. His office door was always open and he always had time to listen to his employees. We are losing not only a boss, but above all a great friend” – this is how the label said goodbye to him MIG Music.
A label owned by SPV Steamhammer released albums by such artists as, among others: Sodom, Destruction, Assassin and Iron Angel. In the following years, the German label included, among others: Axel Rudi Pell, Dio, Judas Priest, Saxon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Whitesnake, Alice Cooper, Helloween, Kreator, Gamma Ray, Kamelot, Doro and Motörhead.