Phil Hardy, Lives Among the Rolling Hills of North London

PHIL HARDY 73 Ridge Road, London N8 9NP, UK Telephone: 44 (0) 208 292 7183 e-mail: [email protected]

Birth: April 7 1945, Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK

Education: Sussex, UK (and exchange student at Berkley, US) BA in English and American studies 1969 Sussex: MA in American studies 1970

Book Publications include: Sam Fuller (Praeger, 1972), Raoul Walsh (Edinburgh Film Festival Publications, 1974) Psychoanalysis and The Cinema (Edinburgh Film Festival Publications, 1976), Faber Companion To Popular Music of the 20th Century (1990, 1995 and 2002). He was the editor and chief writer of the Aurum (UK)/Overlook (US) Film Encyclopaedias. These include The Western (1984, 1990, 1994) Horror, (1987, 1993, 1995, 1998) Science Fiction (1986, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1998), and Gangsters (2001) and War (forthcoming, 2007).

As a journalist Phil Hardy has written for Variety, Music Week, the Sunday Times, Time Out and various music and film trade magazines.

Phil Hardy was the founding editor of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT, which was published by the Financial Times between 1992 and 1999 and is now published by the Informa Group. He remains editor of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT, which is generally accepted as the most authoritative and objective source of information about the international music business.

As a music industry expert Phil Hardy has worked as a consultant to various public bodies in the UK on the economic importance of the culture industries. He was a consultant on the World Bank project Developing the a Music Industry in Africa (2001). He also wrote the Band Aid documentary Thinking about Africa, which was shown several times on BBC and was part of the Band Aid package when it was released on DVD in late 2004. For it he travelled to Ethiopia and Sudan. Published consultation reports in this area include Culture and Commerce: the Importance of Culture to the London Economy (1989, 1990).

As editor of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT Phil Hardy has chaired and taken part in various music industry panels, including Prospects for the Indian Music Industry (at MIDEM, 1997) and, Co- operation: The Way forward For the Collection Societies? (MIDEM, 2000), Small Societies in a Big World (Copenhagen 2005) and Copyright: National or Regional (Helsinki, 2006).

Phil Hardy is also the author of several music industry reports. These include The European Music Industry (1997) and (as co-author) The Latin and North American Music Business (1997), both of which were published by FT Media. He was also the author of The National Music Publishers Association of the US 1997 and 1998 surveys, International Music Publishing Revenues, 1997 and has written lobbying and informational papers for a number of organisations, the last one of which was on Copyright Term Extension for the UK trade association of independent record companies AIM.