Harvey Brian Lisberg (born 2 March 1940) is an English talent manager and impresario, best known for discovering Herman's Hermits in 1963. In 1965, he signed songwriter Graham Gouldman, a founder member of 10cc, who Lisberg also managed, along with Godley & Creme, Tony Christie, Barclay James Harvest, Gordon Giltrap, Sad Café, Wax and others. Early life Harvey Lisberg was a war baby, born in Manchester, UK, to Violet (née Sternberg) and Judah Lisberg, into a Jewish family. His father joined the British Army at the beginning of World War II, and served in North Africa and Italy until 1945. Mother and son evacuated to Blackpool for the duration of the war, and Lisberg was five years old when he first spoke with his father. Reunited, they returned to Manchester, and young Lisberg was sent to Jewish Day School, before transferring to Carmel College in Oxfordshire, where he was the youngest boarder at school. He ran away three times, once getting as far as London on a penny platform ticket, and struck a deal with headmaster, Kopul Rosen, who let him off as long as he did not run away again. At age eleven, Lisberg attended Salford Grammar School, graduating in July 1962 as a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from the University of Manchester. Sport management Lisberg was always interested in sport, particularly football. In the 1960s, he managed Fred Pickering, when he played for both Everton F.C. and the England national football team. In the 1970s, he managed England Under-21 player, Gary Owen, negotiating his transfer from Manchester City F.C. to West Bromwich Albion F.C. with Ron Atkinson, for what was then a substantial fee. Lisberg oversaw the production of several football-related songs, some recorded at Strawberry Studios, and performed and/or written by future members of 10cc, e.g. Boys in Blue (1972), For Ever Everton (1972), and Willie Morgan on the Wing (1974). More recent football songs are Shearer Shearer (1996), and United City Calypso (2011), featuring Lisberg himself as the artist parodying Lord Kitchener's classic ‘City and United 1956 – The Manchester Football Double’, to celebrate the next Manchester football double in 2011, when Manchester United F.C. and Manchester City F.C. won the Premier League and the FA Cup respectively. In 1981, Lisberg ventured into the snooker world; by signing Jimmy White, who he helped mould into the people's champion. Lisberg arranged a complete makeover for White: