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| birth_place = Gloucester, England| other_names = Miami| nationality = BritishLawyer|music manager}}| years_active =| spouse = Claudia Beach| children = 2; including Matilda}}Henry James BeachBOOK,books.google.com/books?id=cvedLpttFkoC&q=%22Henry+James+Beach%22+%22queen%22&pg=PT135, Freddie Mercury, Lesley-Ann, Jones, 15 June 2012, Sperling & Kupfer, 9788873396192, Google Books, WEB,suite.endole.co.uk/insight/people/9790167-henry-james-beach, Henry James “Miami” Beach, Endole Directory, 2018-12-11, (born 9 March 1942), known as Jim Beach or “Miami” Beach, is a British lawyer and band manager, best known for being the long-time manager of the rock band Queen, its individual members and the comedy group Monty Python.BOOK, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography, Idle, Eric, Crown Archetype, 2018, 978-1984822581, Chapter 5, He was nicknamed “Miami” by Freddie Mercury, a play on his surname. He took over as manager of the band in 1978 after he had acted on their behalf as a lawyer.Beach is co-founder of Transistor Project, together with Blur’s Dave Rowntree.NEWS, Music Veterans Launch E-Label with outside Line., 13 May 2004, New Media Age, Beach is also the co-founder of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, which promotes AIDS prevention worldwide.WEB,www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com/site/aboutus, About us, Mercuryphoenixtrust.com, 2019-02-20, Beach lives in Montreux, Switzerland.WEB,media.gettyimages.com/photos/jim-beach-and-family-including-son-ol-beach-attending-the-bohemian-picture-id1052820010, Archived copy, 24 October 2018, 24 October 2018,web.archive.org/web/20181024231853/https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/jim-beach-and-family-including-son-ol-beach-attending-the-bohemian-picture-id1052820010, dead,

Early life

Beach was born in Gloucester. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he read law.’University News’, Times, 26 June 1964. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1963 went on a road tour of England and Scotland with Monty Python’s Eric Idle and Graeme Garden as the piano player.

Family

He is married to Claudia Beach and has a daughter, Matilda, and a son, Ol. Ol Beach is the frontman for the band Yellowire and was formerly the keyboard player for the rock band Wire Daisies, discovered by Queen’s Roger Taylor.WEB,brianmay.com/queen/queennews/queennewsaug10.html, MESSAGE FROM JIM BEACH, 2010-08-20, 2018-12-11, Brianmay.com, 15 November 2018,web.archive.org/web/20181115211003/https://www.brianmay.com/queen/queennews/queennewsaug10.html, dead,

In popular culture

Beach was a producer in the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody. He was portrayed in the film by Tom Hollander.

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