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2509 Alan Eds 17/9/10 19:21 Page 19 dummy 17/9/10 14:44 Page 1 38 9776669776136 THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC www.musicweek.com 25.09.10 £5.15 Project3 14/9/10 13:38 Page 1 JUST ONE MORE INTERVIEW ALICE ...ITS REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!W ALICE...ITS REAL 2509_alan eds 17/9/10 19:21 Page 19 www.musicweek.com 25.09.10 Music Week 19 Features PUBLIC IMAGE LTD Master of the PR arts Alan Edwards has described his job at the helm of the Outside Organisation as everything from a ‘vocation’ to an ‘obsession’. Music Week reveals the man and the motivation behind some of the most momentous PR campaigns in – and beyond – the music business Executive profile: Alan Edwards Looking a good deal younger than his experience so long in the choppy waters between them, but in reality ABOVE would suggest he should, Edwards calls his job “a voca- few could; it is no accident that Edwards and Outside Get the message: By Adam Woods tion”, “a calling”, even “an obsession”. He apologises for have. early press releas- es, fan-club publi- his melodramatic language even as he does so, but when “I’m always trying to learn from different places,” says cations, itineraries DON’T TELL THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. But one PR you look at his record, words like those are the only ones the man who has also helped shape the careers of Amy and letters written company was at the centre of the Michael Jackson funer- that could really account for the breadth of achievement. Winehouse, Blondie, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, by Alan Edwards al, Climategate and Naomi Campbell’s appearance at “You could call it a creative instinct or something that David Bowie, Spice Girls, David Beckham, P Diddy, Kevin under the moniker Modern Publicity. Charles Taylor’s trial in The Hague. is within me, but at the end of every week, I hope I have Pietersen and Shayne Ward. “It keeps it exciting, keeps it As a 20-year-old But there is no sinister hand at work or international improved at what I do,” he says, early in a lengthy conver- interesting, and I believe you stay fresh that way. But I PR executive, he plot afoot; it is simply the result of good contacts, excel- sation that takes in everything from Johnny Thunders’ believe ultimately, it is in your DNA – I can’t help myself.” used to hand-draw lent planning and clinical execution from a master of the chemical breakfast and Iggy Pop’s politics to the deleteri- Needless to stay, he is not stopping. From Outside’s press releases “just so they PR arts. ous effect of the corporate music business on its own PR offices halfway up London’s Tottenham Court Road, didn’t look like In nearly four decades of press, management and PR skills base. Edwards has a new plan in mind: to combine global reach all the rest” – including 15 years at the helm of the 45-strong Outside It is a fascinating, peculiar world as Edwards describes with 24-hour response and create a genuine worldwide Organisation – Alan Edwards has played a major role in it, inhabited by musicians, supermodels, brands and media relations practice. countless breaking news stories in the music and enter- sportsmen on one side and the world’s relentless media Outside has successfully diversified before – into tainment industries and beyond. on the other. Many might like to think they could survive online PR and marketing, and photography – and its core Music Week Page 16/9/10 11:46 Page 1 2509_alan eds 17/9/10 19:22 Page 21 www.musicweek.com 25.09.10 Music Week 21 Features It is a big pitch, but why wouldn’t he be able to pull it “That’s why I think we are uniquely equipped to do LEFT off? Friends and colleagues talk about a phenomenally this sort of thing,” says Edwards. “It’s an orchestra, and Cover star: the man behind many a hard-working, permanently switched-on character. The I’m the conductor, and all day long that’s what I do – put covershoot gets Evening Standard regularly considers him one of London’s this bit with that bit to create what I hope are original his own – Alan most influential people; Sony Music UK chairman and rhythms and special patterns you can’t get as a solo per- Edwards on the CEO Ged Doherty calls him “the most sensible, clear- former. As a solo artist, you have limitations. I’d just be front of the Sunday Times thinking and strategic PR executive in the world”; The the clarinet player or something.” Magazine. Who’s Roger Daltrey simply describes him as “second to By “this sort of thing”, he means bringing the widest Although the fea- none. The Guv’nor”. Friend and one-time business part- possible vision to a remit that now stretches from the ture was written in ner Dave Woolfe calls him “a legend New York Post to Twitter, quite apart 2002, the photo was taken in his of the music PR world. He’s worked from the British red-tops and broad- “Within 10 or 15 office in Covent with them all and was an invaluable sheets, the music monthlies and Garden in the late mentor to me – and many others minutes, stories are weeklies, websites and blogs. 1970s I’m sure – in my early career.” “Music PR in the traditional BELOW “He is very driven, and he enjoys in the public domain sense is in some ways becoming Edwards (second his work – you can’t do business at extinct,” says Edwards. “Not long left) with TV exec- that level without enjoying what – you have got no ago, you could put an agency togeth- utive Michael you do,” says booking agent John er and have 20 or 30 acts all paying a Grade and charity- influence over them. focused band RD Giddings of Solo, a friend since the retainer and it was a very straightfor- Crusaders (Roger 1970s, when he and Edwards That’s why my real ward business. Financially, now, it’s a Daltrey and worked together on The Stranglers. nightmare because everyone’s cut- Richard Desmond) “He has got natural flair for PR and vision is a global, ting back, but if you’ve got the nerve, for creating and generating interest this is the best time to be in PR prob- BELOW LEFT 24-hour operation...” Modern PR: business encompasses artist management, crisis manage- in artists. He works very hard for ably in 20 years.” Outside’s expertise ment and a very broad definition of proactive media con- them and he makes things happen.” ALAN EDWARDS Where a roster that sprawls across takes in a raft of sultancy on behalf of artists, celebrities, sportsmen, These are favourable times for fashion, pure celebrity, music and disciplines because music stars no brands and organisations alike. people who do so, Edwards contends. Citing US statistics brands might once have seemed an unfocused one, now it longer constrain “Simon Fuller said a funny thing to me quite recent- that demonstrate the rise of PR against the advertising seems like a sensible approach for a time when hardly any themselves to ly,” says Edwards, one-time PR handler for Fuller charges slowdown, he reveals he has seldom been so excited by the public figure represents just one thing. music – as the Spice Girls and David Beckham. “He said, actually, possibilities of his profession. “With Alice Cooper, we are dealing with everything P Diddy’s Sean John range the word PR doesn’t really cover what PR is anymore. And “Times of upheaval and change favour people with from theme parks to an Eau de Fear fragrance he is of fragrances it’s true. The media has expanded to an extraordinary ideas; they favour people who take risks,” he says. “It’s going to launch,” says Edwards. “Same with Spandau and fashionwear degree; it is a labyrinth and more than ever you need good for the entrepreneur. What it’s not good for is peo- Ballet – we were involved in Gary Kemp’s book deal, the shows someone to point the way through it.” ple who just work in systems, tick boxes because they DVD, the live shows. P Diddy is another example of a Once, he notes, the media stopped at Dover. But that always did it this way. That inflexibility is a disaster at brand that encompasses fashion, fragrances – many, continued on page 25 > was a very long time ago – before he formed Modern times like this. The opportunities are really, really mani- Publicity in the early 1980s as the first of his own three fold and if you can spot them, it is a really, really exciting PR agencies, the second being Poole Edwards PR, the time to be in PR.” early-Nineties venture with Chris Poole. And long before Edwards casts a long shadow, but it should not be he won The Rolling Stones’ business. allowed to obscure the operation he controls, and “Mick Jagger said to me in 1981, ‘If you can’t handle Outside has swelled its senior ranks consider- Europe, you can’t do the job.’ Now you could plonk ably in the past year. me in pretty well any major city, I would think, and Diverse and high-profile signings have without having to look it up, I would know roughly included former News Of The World fig- who the major media were, who did what. ures Neil Wallis and Rav Singh, ex- “I can’t think of a country we haven’t worked, Taylor Herring account director actually,” he muses.
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