Usic Week for Everyone in the Business of Music OCTOBER 251997 £3.35
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TV commercials on 'THE BOX' from w/c 13th October 60 sec. radio ads. on ail ILR stations from Sunday 19th October Major TV & radio advertising from week of release right through to Christmas Nationwide 48 sheet sites throughout October & December 6 sheet sites in November & December Full page ads. in the teen, music, specialist, style & national press B § tthusic we For Everyone in the Business of Music OCTOBER 251997 £3.35 THIS WEEK VOP looks Branson-bound 4IFPI data Provided the price is right, we are very Smith joint venture it would be ahnost LIK growth Virgin Our Pricc interestedThe sale in of doing Virgin a deal." 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His move,director to become of recordthe Really divi- opportunityUK on amicable to work terms, for Andrew but says Lloyd the > withroup, the mds a 10-3-year r Webber was too good tyfoni e," he s; IMF kedlatterly for Parlophone,EMI UK EMI Prêt "Thest ta only co along once i Simon leavesRondor after 18-month reign M ECHOBELLY ERE COMES THE IG RUSH Kiss founder Mac ca Is it a day thewithin station the industry.surprisedon Friday (17) by tendering staff at which,for hts he as says, yet willunnamed offer a 1 d-ebu; r;SorT^^Hp^ ^ ^ MUSIC HAS HOTLINE TO BLAIR IN GOVERNMENT THINK TANK- p3 ► ► ► NEWSDESK: 0171-921 5990 or NEWSFILE Industry bids to hait digital piracy liusic has Hotline to Blair EuropeanMusic industry Commission représentatives to amend have new askedEU copyright the law toprotected ensure musicfrom piracy. transmitted The délégation, via digital includingnetworks EMIis sn Govemmentthinktank MarketEurope's Commissioner présidant Rupert Mario Perry, Monti met last the weekEU's Internai to outline by Robert Ashton SportDepartment (DCMS), of which Culture, replaced Media the DTIand threecopyright key prioritiesdirectives they due wantto be totabled see included soon in Brussels. in new enceThe atmusic cabinet industr/s level is beingincreased underlined influ- responsibleas the govemment for the departmentmusic industry largely in These include giving record producersfull légal by the création of a new government- the summer, although issues such as lounding out potential canc grantingprotection exclusive for the use rights of technology to allow the such music as encryption;industry to sponsoredThe top-level music thinkgroup, tank. provisionally handledcopyright by and the foreign DTI. trade will stiil be oinThe before MBAG Christmas. is expected te control ail commercial uses of its works: and ensuring calledGroup (MBAG),the Music will Business comprise keyAdvisory play- to Thebe fed MBAG's into the findings recently-formed are also likely Cre- the EU remains strong on copyright infringement. managementers from record companies, labels, publishing trade associa- and Créationative task président force, Alanwhich McGee includea and i goven s the n Perfect Day gets release cians. And, because it is expected to be about the ot Reed'sChrysalis Perfect is releasing Day, recorded the multi-artist as the soundtrack version of toLou the S BBC licence fee ad. The single, due out on November Fisher,Chris Smiththe group or artswill haveminister the earMark of lowsThe last formation week's appointment of the think oftank former fol- would She" help also head believes off unwelcome the think goi 17, will include three versions of the song. primeThe ministerdozen members Tony Blair, of the think tank BPI director of légal aiTairs Sara John thement music intervention. business "Aare lot cynical of people of gov- in MD quits Primary Talent towill the brainstorm music business, issues directlywhose cultural related createemment, a climate but X think where the the think industry tank willcan Primary Talent International joint owner and joint MD might ht oently be prosper, Govemment knows that it Steveinterests. Hedges Hedges has willquit continuethe group to to representThe pursue other Mutton candoesn't help need in areas to be such interventionist, as éducation, but lég- it Birds as agent and manager. nnelled into the islation and trade issues," she says. Bjork and IL Cool J join MTV line up ColsonandHedges MTV has added to its line-up of performers for its StadiumNovember in 6Rotterdam. European MusicBjork and flwards LL Cool atthe J will Ahoy perform landtopIMFprizes alongside another half dozen acts including U2, Spice screenedGirls, Aerosmith acrossthe and ITVBackstreet network Boys. on November The event 8. will be weekCeltus when ined she John was Peel nar on theis IMFthe orav YoungGailforce Manager Management's of the Year. Gail Colson, who was pre- Columbia in Joël radio exclusive sented with the Peter Grant Award for outstanding IIIColumbia paejeage is to promoting up to 10m Billy régional Joel's radio Greatest listeners Hits thisVolume wonmanager the firstof the Re-Pro year, andInternational producer MikeRecording Hedges, Award who week with an exclusive broadeast of a Q&A session Preachers,for his work Texas with and bandsThe Beautiful such as South, Manie were Street also withat London's the singer/songwriter. Whitfield Street TheStudios session last wasThursday recorded (16) honouredRuth Sandler, at Thursday's managing (14) dinner. director of Albemarle, for broadeast by the Emap Radio Group and Heatt FM. InIdlewild The City Live clinch Unsigned Worldwide runners-up Idlewild deal have In an emotional speech Benson said, 'Tve been work- signed a worldwide deal with EMI Music Publishing ing on Celtus for years and it's great to have my Tierceand Deceptive Panda in Music. November The bandand a will mini-album release aon single on involvementOn learning recognised." that his présentation was being broad- Deceptive in January. suchcast live as Muff to the Winwood, Hilton diners Peter Peel, Grant, who Rob joins Dickîns luminaries and John Kennedy on the Roll of Honour, quipped the IMF A 2,000-strong crowd watched Sir Paul McCartney relaunch HM SimonGoffe Goffe, quits senior MCA A&R to manager focus at on MCA Boni Music, Size has hadThe just ceremony doubled endedhis audience with a livefigures. performance by The flagship Oxford Circus store iastThursday. Macca, whose class left after 18 months to concentrate on steering his workunveiled Standing a new Stone six-foot was model due toof makeNipper its and Top phonograph 75 début yesterday at the fron (19), Heavyweight Management charge and Mercury Prize fully kept under manager, Gail theEBm revamped store. MCAwinner will Roni continue Size, who to handle he has Size's handled publishing. for four years. Wildstar Entertainment Rights row empts at conférence andConner not ReevesWildstar is Management managed by Wildstar as incorrectly Entertainment reported American music publishers'een and Anglo- c in last week's Talent pages. nentalinto a war collection of words societies at a London boiled co:onfer- danuaryThe Cannes between Agreement the major publisimade tions" which allow continental socie Spice Girls score platinum in first week eneeIn lasthis week. keynt David theand societies'the collection commission societies rateto red fi includingto deduct thoseup to of10% Anglo-American of royalties - 1 Spice Girls' Spice Up Your Life was certified Hockman, Worldwide heâd of PolyGrai 8.09% to 6% by 1 July 2000 has b writers - to benefit purely domestic lastit )'week. 11 pjatinumjn Other platinum its first awards week went of release to Elton bythe John's BPI nentalMusic Publishing,societies as "overblowlambasted the cont At Wednesdays cc interests.use of other "It people's is an incredibly money.